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Trials are intended to make us think, to wean us from the world, to send us to the Bible, to drive us to our knees.

J. C. Ryle

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J. C. Ryle
Age: 84 †
Born: 1816
Born: May 10
Died: 1900
Died: June 10
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Bishop Of Liverpool
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Macclesfield
Cheshire
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