Richard Cecil quotes

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false. (Richard Cecil)
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. View quote
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. View quote
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God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction. View quote
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The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: - they acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things. View quote
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If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own. View quote
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. View quote
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There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making. View quote
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It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it. View quote
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Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain. View quote
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The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other. (Richard Cecil)
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial. View quote
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Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes. View quote
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If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. View quote
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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. View quote
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The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become. View quote
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In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance; what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still. View quote
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Providence is a greater mystery than revelation. View quote
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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly. View quote
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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. View quote
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Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart. (Richard Cecil)
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship. View quote
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Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him." When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust. View quote
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. View quote
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An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet. View quote
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