Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of John [Annotated, Updated]: A Commentary

by J.C. Ryle

We may die to the Lord, as well as live to the Lord; we may be patient sufferers as well as active workers. Like Samson, we may do more for God in our death than we ever did in our lives. It is probable that the patient deaths of our martyred Reformers had more effect on the minds of Englishmen than all the sermons they preached and all the books they wrote.