" Let us not only remember this rule but practice it too. We live in a world of sin and sorrow. The days of darkness in a man’s life are many. It needs no prophet’s eye to foresee that we shall all shed many a tear and feel many a heart-wrench before we die. Let us be armed with a formula against despair before our troubles come. Let us know what to do when sickness, or bereavement, or cross, or loss, or disappointment breaks in upon us like an armed man. Let us do as they did in Simon’s house at Capernaum. Let us at once tell the Lord. "
― J.C. Ryle , Expository Thoughts on the Gospel of Mark: A Commentary [Updated]