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Follow Christ for His own sake, if you follow Him at all.

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
J. C. Ryle
John Ryle
John C. Ryle
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People are backsliders on their knees long before they backslide openly in the eyes of the world.
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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.
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The devil has more knowledge than any of us, and yet is no better for it.
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