No time is so well spent in every day as that which we spend upon our knees.
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J. C. Ryle was a 19th-century anglican bishop. John Charles Ryle was an English Anglican bishop, preacher, and writer in the evangelical and Calvinist traditions. He was the first Anglican bishop of Liverpool. Read more on Wikipedia →

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