Perfection
Have we ever seen holier men
than the martyred John Bradford, or Hooker, or Usher, or Baxter,
or Rutherford, or M'Cheyne? Yet no one can read the
writings and letters of these men without seeing that they felt
themselves "debtors to mercy and grace" every day, and the very
last thing they ever laid claim to was
perfection!
- J. C. Ryle