“No man ever said at the end of his days, "I have read my Bible too much, I have thought of God too much, I have prayed too much, I have been too careful about my soul."”

—  J.C. Ryle

Source: Home Truths (1859), Ch. II: "Repent, or Perish", p. 73

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