Favorite Literary Passage

With Easter only a couple weeks away it seems appropriate to share my favorite literary passage. It is a short but profound passage from The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan and first published in 1675.
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Now I saw in my dream, that the highway up which Christian was to go was fenced on either side with a wall, and that wall was called Salvation. Up this way, therefore, did burdened Christian run, but not without great difficulty, because of the load on his back.

He ran thus till he came at a place somewhat ascending, and upon that place stood a cross, and a little below, just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from off his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do till it came to the mouth of the sepulchure, where it fell in, and I saw it no more.

Then was Christian glad and lightsome, and said, with a merry heart, "He hath given me rest by his sorrow and life by his death." Then He stood still awhile to look and wonder; for it was very surprising to him, that the sight of the cross should thus ease him of his burden. He looked, therefore, and looked again, even till the springs that were in his head sent the waters down his cheeks.
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When is the last time you thanked God for His wondrous work through Christ on the cross? Take time to ponder the scene John Bunyan paints here. We were burdened down by sin, but Jesus took our punishment leaving us free from sins' awful weight.