“Without a divine call no one can be saved. We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God, unless He first called us by His grace.”

—  J.C. Ryle

Mark II: 13–22, p. 31
Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: St. Mark (1857)

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