Experience supplies painful proof that traditions once called into being are first called useful, then they become necessary. At last they are too often made idols, and all must bow down to them or be punished.
J. C. RyleIf you profess to be a child of God, leave it to the Lord Jesus to sanctify you in His own way.
J. C. RyleTrials 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