“Let your Christianity be so unmistakeable, your eye so single, your heart so whole, your walk so straightforward, that all who see you may have no doubt whose you are and whom you serve.”

—  J.C. Ryle

Source: Old Paths (1878), Ch. V: "Alive or Dead", p. 145

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