# “A single day in hell” by J.C. Ryle

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- Published: 2021-03-22T12:00:25-05:00
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“Count up and compare, for another thing, the trouble that true Christianity entails,
and the troubles that are in store for the wicked beyond the grave.

Grant for a moment that Bible-reading, and praying, and repenting, and believing,
and holy living, require pains and self-denial.

It is all nothing compared to that ‘wrath to come’ which is stored up for the impenitent
and unbelieving.

A single day in Hell will be worse than a whole life spent in carrying the cross.

The ‘worm that never dies, and the fire that is not quenched,’ (**Mark 9:48**) are
things which it passes man’s power to conceive fully or describe.”

–J.C. Ryle, [_Holiness: Its Nature, Hindrances, Difficulties and Roots_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848715064?tag=toletaupanre-20)(
Carlisle, PA: Banner of Truth, 1877/2014), 107-108.

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