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# It needs courage, boldness, and perseverance
- URL: https://www.theholyfight.com/it-needs-courage-boldness-and-perseverance/
- Published: 2026-11-03T21:06:44.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-03T21:06:44.000Z
- Description: J. C. Ryle, Holiness
- Author: Sean Catlett
- Tags: Library, J. C. Ryle

> I want no one to begin the life of a Christian soldier without counting the cost. I would not keep back from anyone that if he would be holy and see the Lord he must fight, and that the Christian fight though spiritual is real and severe. It needs courage, boldness, and perseverance.

**J. C. Ryle**, *Holiness* (1879)

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J. C. Ryle (1816–1900) was the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. *Holiness* is his best-known book.

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