Richard Cecil Quotes
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The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
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Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
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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.
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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.
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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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Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
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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.
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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
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It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
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The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
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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.
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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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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
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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.
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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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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
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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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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.
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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
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There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
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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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Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.
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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.
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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.
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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
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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.
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Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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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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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.
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