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The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
Age: 84 †
Born: 1816
Born: May 10
Died: 1900
Died: June 10
Anglican Priest
Bishop Of Liverpool
Cricketer
Writer
Macclesfield
Cheshire
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Except a man be born again, he will wish one day he had never been born at all.
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