How we cite our quotes: Paragraph (P#) or Line (Line #)
Quote #1
"Do you see yonder Wicket Gate?" (P8)
This is what Evangelist asks the distressed Christian when the two first meet. The Wicket Gate is the strongest symbol Bunyan provides for the humility required of pilgrims. It's not an elaborate marble arch, or a fancy golden gate. Wicket is a simple, cheap material associated with garden fences and cottages. It isn't simply that even the poor will be able to walk the path to the Celestial City, but that such humble beginnings are required. To reach everlasting glory, symbolized by the "Celestial Gates," one has to begin with the humble wicket gate.
Quote #2
Nay, in all these things we are more than Conquerors through him that loved us.(P312)
This quote expresses the power that comes through humility—not only the humility displayed by Jesus on the cross and by God in offering his son, but also how followers of Christ acknowledge this humility.
Quote #3
Now was Christian much affected with his deliverance from all the dangers of his solitary way; which dangers, though he feared them more before, yet he saw them more clearly now, because the light of the day made them conspicuous to him. (P339)
We're half-way through the Valley of the Shadow of Death. Literally, Christian has made it half-way through death, past the gate to hell, but… instead of congratulating himself, he thinks of his "deliverance." Dude keeps things in perspective.