Richard Cecil Quotes

“Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.”

“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.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Firsts Littles Speak Wealth Dangerous Grateful Humble Sensible Stunned Predicaments

Book:The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life

“A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.”

Men Looks Doe Wealth Wise Horse Titles Look Up Harness

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Ifs Mind May Children Home Spirit Influence Ought Our Children Conviction Your Children Tone Wicked Coming Home Great Influence

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.”

Children Asks Father Prayer Heavenly Heavenly Father

Book:Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt

Source: Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt

“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.”

Thinking Soul Body Asks Prayer Greater Comfort Everlasting Urgent

Book:Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt

Source: Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt

“The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.”

Christian Hours Prayer Parentheses

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Men Soul Lost Prayer Rich Praying Calling Saint Instance Remembered Torment Abraham Rich Man Lost Souls

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Ifs Way Writing Done My Own Prayer Cases Twenties Mischief

Author:Richard Cecil

“Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.”

Men Feels Book Character Originals Every Man Originality Solitary

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.”

World Inspirational Self Motivational Break Pieces Active Self Discipline Willpower Will Power Ardent Will And Determination Stools Self Will

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

“Prayer is faith passing into action.”

Action Prayer Passing Passings

Author:Richard Cecil

“The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.”

Lust Sensuality Cheating Nurse Infidelity

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“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.”

Character God All Things Sentences Obedience Great Character One Sentence

Book:Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

Source: Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

“Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.”

People Looks Mean Week Example Six

Author:Richard Cecil

“All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.”

Stills Lying Errors Extremes Reverse

Author:Richard Cecil

“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”

Men World May Philosophy Turns Poverty Grace Proud Misery Contempt Consolation Pardon Sullen Sturdy

Author:Richard Cecil

“The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs in us by his Spirit. Most errors arise from an attempt to separate these two.”

Two Spirit Christ Errors Flesh Arise Sinner Pillars

Book:Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...: with general remarks on his life, connections, and character

Source: Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...: with general remarks on his life, connections, and character

“Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss”

Men Years Light Loss Sun Influence Years Ago This Day Inquiry Console

Author:Richard Cecil

“Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.”

Thinking May Suffering Bears Patient Aids Be Patient

Author:Richard Cecil

“Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.”

Method Hinges Punctuality Punctual

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.”

Laughing Leafs Boldness Shaking Unbelief Spears

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Joy Tears And Love Seeds Yield Joyful Harvest Hope And Love Faith Hope Faith Hope And Love

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil

“Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.”

Soul Famine Unbelief

Author:Richard Cecil

“Eloquence is vehement simplicity.”

Simplicity Eloquence Vehement

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: To which is Prefixed a View of His Character

“When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.”

Ifs Men Trying Firsts Doe Inspiration Motivation Suffering Heaven Sides Christ Beats Casts Temptation Flaws Bells Crowns Founders Beaten Hammers Steeples

Author:Richard Cecil

“The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.”

Knows World Looks Mean Ministers Ministry Pulpit

Author:Richard Cecil

“Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.”

Worst Folly Prepare For The Worst

Author:Richard Cecil

“There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.”

Policy Fixed Entity

Author:Richard Cecil

“Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.”

Party Absurd

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.”

Trouble Sorrow Draws Midst Bitterness Affliction

Author:Richard Cecil

“Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.”

Evil Unbelief Good Evil

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Way Should Faces Teach Humility Dust Right Way Abraham

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“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.”

Men Running Lying Walks Quiet Constant Notion Tendencies Indian Laziness Hug Idle Adopted Maxims Indolence

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.”

Greater Mystery Revelations Providence

Author:Richard Cecil

“It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.”

Easier Settling

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“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.”

Men Lying Effects Months Depends Judgment Losing Gold Every Man Grain Affliction Criteria Furnaces Judgment Of Others

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.”

Understood Bible Schemes Testament New Testament Old And New

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“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.”

Men Trying Mind Kind Helping Christ Effects He Man Genius Please Labor Neighbor Sinner Rough Artificial Edification

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Eye Dying Events Duty Creatures Infinite Lays Burden Shoulders Miserable His Eyes Consideration Remove Tempted

Book:The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

Source: The works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... with a memoir of his life: Arranged and rev., with a view of the author's character

“If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.”

Ifs Feels Persons Evil Speak Ought Dislike

Book:Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

Source: Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character

“The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.”

Christian Habit Fellowship Rapture Fellowship With God

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“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.”

Stills Seems Wonderful Machines Complicated Redemption Schemes Exquisite

Book:The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.”

Heart Conversion Regeneration

Book:The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

Source: The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life

“Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.”

Heart Religion Belief Influence

Book:Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

Source: Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil ... With a view of his character, by the Rev. Josiah Pratt ... To which is prefixed a memoir of his life signed: J. Cecil . Tenth edition

“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.”

World Strong Sin Worship Down And Lust Bows Thrones Restraint Minions

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Years Littles Beautiful Evil Grows Attention Beauty Convinced Wisest Beautiful Life

Author:Richard Cecil

“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”

Knows Firsts Steps Learning Ignorant First Steps

Author:Richard Cecil

“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.”

Way Christian Prayer And Love Patience Affliction Often Is Furnaces Hope And Love Christian Prayer

Author:Richard Cecil

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