He knows your trials and your temptations, your difficulties and your foes. In the days of His flesh He was like you–a young man at Nazareth. He knows by experience a young man’s mind. He can understand the feeling of your temptations–because He himself suffered when He was tempted. Surely you will be without excuse if you turn away from such a Savior and Friend as this.

– J.C. Ryle

1816 – 1900