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.

Richard Cecil

Beauty, Beautiful, Years

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

Richard Cecil

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Yield, Joy, Tears

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

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Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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Soul, Famine, Unbelief

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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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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.

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

Richard Cecil

Book, Character, Men

Richard Cecil, Josiah PRATT (the Elder.) (1854). “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”, p.53

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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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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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Evil, Speak, Feels

Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.259

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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.

Richard Cecil

Philosophy, Men, Grace

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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 Cecil

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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Richard Cecil

Born: November 8, 1748
Died: August 15, 1810
Occupation: Clergyman
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