Let us cleave to Christ more closely, love him more heartily, live to him more thoroughly, copy him more exactly, confess him more boldly, follow him more fully. Religion like this will always bring its own reward. Worldly people may laugh at it. Weak brethren may think it extreme. But it will wear well. At even time it will bring us light. In sickness it will bring us peace. In the world to come it will give us a crown of glory that fadeth not away.
-J.C. Ryle, quoted in Brian Croft, Visit the sick: Ministering God’s grace in times of illness (Leominster, UK: Day One, 2008), 90.
