Richard Cecil Quotes
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.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
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.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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.
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.
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.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
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.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
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.
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.
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
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.
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.
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.
