Citations:stifle


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * Then I say, sometimes (as I think) they may; but they being naturally ignorant, understand not that such convictions tend to their good; and therefore they do desperately seek to stifle them, and presumptuously continue to flatter themselves in the way of their own hearts.
 * Now the ignorant know not that such convictions as tend to put them in fear are for their good, and therefore they seek to stifle them.