Richard Cecil quotes
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“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”
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“All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.”
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“Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.”
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“Eloquence is vehement simplicity.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1824). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character”, p.300
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“He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.87
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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.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.438
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“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.414
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“I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.”
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“In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.”
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“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”
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“Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.”
-- Richard CecilSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.”
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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 His will in all things.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.244
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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.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil (1825). “The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character”, p.262
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“The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.”
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“An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.”
-- Richard CecilSource : Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1816). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.326
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“The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.”
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“A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.”
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“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.”
-- Richard CecilSource : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.
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“We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.”
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