Sickness Booklet by J.C.Ryle

"Sickness helps to level and humble us."

J.C. Ryle provides a short, concise, sermon/booklet answering why sickness exists, why God allows sickness, and how a Christian ought to approach sickness.

"God allows pain, sickness, and disease, not because He loves to vex man, but because He desires to benefit man’s heart, and mind, and conscience, and soul, to all eternity."

"Meekness, gentleness, longsuffering, faith, patience, are all mentioned in the Word of God as fruits of the Spirit. They are passive graces which specially glorify God."

"We have no right to murmur at sickness, and repine at its presence in the world. We ought rather to thank God for it. It is God’s witness. It is the soul’s adviser. It is an awakener to the conscience. It is a purifier to the heart. Surely I have a right to tell you that sickness is a blessing and not a curse, a help and not an injury, a gain and not a loss, a friend and not a foe to mankind."

"Sickness helps to make men think seriously of God, and their souls, and the world to come."

"If you can live in a sick and dying world and not feel for others, you have yet much to learn."

"We travel towards a world where there is no more sickness, where parting, and pain, and crying, and mourning, are done with for evermore."