How we cite our quotes: Paragraph (P#) or Line (Line #)
Quote #4
[...] there are many ways but down upon this, and they are crooked and wide: But thus thou mayest distinguish the right from the wrong, the right only being straight and narrow. (P135)
Bunyan is constantly reminding his reader of this "straight and narrow" road that the pilgrims walk. As Good-will explains here, there are many other paths one can take, and many opportunities to deviate from the narrow road. Just like walking a narrow bridge or balance beam, though, you know that when the path is narrow, you have to concentrate to stay on it. This emphasizes the way in which, for Bunyan, simply getting on the right road isn't enough. Walking the narrow, "right" way means constantly making the choice to stay on it.
Quote #5
One thing I would not let slip; I took notice that now poor Christian was so confounded, that he did not know his own voice; and thus I perceived it; Just when he was come over against the mouth of the burning Pit, one of the wicked ones got behind him, and stept up softly to him, and whisperingly suggested many grievous blasphemies to him, which he verily thought had proceeded from his own mind. This put Christian more to it than anything that he met with before, even to think that he should now blaspheme him that he loved so much before; yet, if he could have helped it, he would not have done it; but he had not the discretion neither to stop his ears, nor to know from whence those blasphemies came. (P332)
Really important (and interesting) to think of a passage like this symbolically. In the allegory, Christian is having this experience of confusion in the Valley of the Shadow of Death. But consider the state of mind that Bunyan's describing: the feeling of not knowing your own mind, like being caught in an avalanche and not being able to tell up from down. The Valley of the Shadow is just like the times in life when this kind of confusion and alienation descends; in grief, anger, fear. You might think of these feelings as the "wicked ones" whispering in your ear.
Quote #6
"For why," said he, "should you choose life, seeing it is attended with so much bitterness?" (P604)
Everyone has it in his power to end the show whenever he likes, forcing the point that, as long as we continue to live, we choose to live. This goes along with the more subtle, constant, even unconscious nature of choice that Bunyan is often depicting. The Giant might seem to be the most evident cause of the suffering (he is the one with the stick, right?), but in this question he's really implying that his prisoners are choosing their torture by choosing to live. Pretty subtle for an ogre, right?