Citations:thieves


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * You are counted thieves already, by the Lord of the way; therefore, I doubt you will not be found true men at the end of the way.
 * Besides, had his jewels been missing at the gate of the Celestial City, he had (and that he knew well enough) been excluded from an inheritance there; and that would have been worse to him than the appearance and villainy of ten thousand thieves.
 * But, consider again, they are but journeymen thieves, they serve under the king of the bottomless pit, who, if need be, will come into their aid himself, and his voice is as the roaring of a lion. [1 Pet. 5:8] I myself have been engaged as this Little-faith was, and I found it a terrible thing.