Richard Cecil Quotes

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

  Richard Cecil

  Learning, Ignorant, Firsts

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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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  Beauty, Beautiful, Years

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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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  Mean, People, Six

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Christian, Patience, Prayer

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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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  Lying, Errors, Reverse

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

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  Evil, Good Evil, Unbelief

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• Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

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  Simplicity, Vehement, Eloquence

  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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• 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 Cecil

  God, Character, Obedience

  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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• Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

  Richard Cecil

  Soul, Famine, Unbelief

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Prayer, Writing, Twenties

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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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  Sorrow, Affliction, Bitterness

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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 Cecil

  Yield, Joy, Tears

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.87

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

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  Worst, Folly, Prepare For The Worst

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

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  Laughing, Leafs, Spears

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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 Cecil

  Humility, Dust, Way

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

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  Christian, Prayer, Hours

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

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  Settling, Easier

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.414

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

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  Simple, Worship, Savory

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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

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  Thinking, Suffering, May

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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.

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  Eye, Dying, Events

  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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  Mean, Ministry, Looks

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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.

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  Grateful, Humble, Men

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1816). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil ...: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.326

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

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  Prayer, Children, Father

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1850). “Remains and miscellanies: To which is prefixed, A view of his character by Josiah Pratt”, p.309

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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 Cecil

  Men, Mind, Trying

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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

  Richard Cecil

  Christian, Fellowship With God, Habit

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.178

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