I recommend the reading of John Bunyan's immortal dream - The Pilgrim's Progress and John Milton's Paradise Lost. For me these are two classics that can never grow stale. Here is a conversation from The Pilgrim's Progress.
Great-Said they anything more to discourage you?
Valiant-Yes; they told me of one Mr. Fearing, who was a pilgrim, and how he found this way so solitary, that he never had a comfortable hour therein; yea, and also (which I had almost forgot) that Christian himself, about whom there had been such a noise, after all his ventures for a celestial crown, was certainly drowned in the Black River, and never went a foot further, however it was smothered up.
Great-And did none of these things discourage you?
Valiant-Why, I still believed what Mr. Tell-Truth had said; and that carried me beyond them all.
Great-Then this was your victory, even your faith.
Valiant-It was so. I believed, and therefore came out, got into the way, fought all that set themselves against me, and, by believing, am come to this place.
Pax Vobiscum
Robert A. Stewart
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