Praise and criticism

" If my life is fruitless,
it doesn't matter who praises me.
And if my life is fruitful,
it does not matter who criticizes me."
~John Bunyan (1628-1888)

Bonnie Johnny even looks like a pirate, don't he? He wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, not bad for a limey! He was a Baptist who loathed Quakers (can't we all just get along?). But you have to appreciate his sentiment here. Consider the Fruit of the Spirit so as ya don't come down with the scurvey or ricketts mates. And be good trees would ye?