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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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  Men, Mind, Trying

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

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• Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

  Richard Cecil

  Mystery, Revelations, Providence

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

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Inspirational, Motivational, Self

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1817). “Remains of the Rev. Richard Cecil”, p.250

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

  Richard Cecil

  Wise, Horse, Men

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

  Richard Cecil

  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 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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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Prayer, Thinking, Soul

  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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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Strong, Lust, Thrones

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

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• Prayer is faith passing into action.

  Richard Cecil

  Prayer, Action, Passing

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

  Richard Cecil

  Punctuality, Method, Hinges

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.373

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Prayer, Men, Soul

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Machines, Redemption, Wonderful

  Richard Cecil (1825). “The Works of the Rev. Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.222

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Bible, Old And New, Schemes

  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.110

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Two, Errors, Flesh

  Richard Cecil (1824). “Memoirs of the Rev. John Newton ...: with general remarks on his life, connections, and character”, p.119

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• The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

  Richard Cecil

  Cheating, Nurse, Lust

  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.81

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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Children, Home, Mind

  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.137

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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Motivation, Inspiration, Men

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

  Richard Cecil

  Fixed, Entity, Policy

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Party, Absurd

  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.416

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• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Lying, Men, Gold

  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.250

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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

  Richard Cecil

  Loss, Men, Years

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

  Richard Cecil

  Heart, Regeneration, Conversion

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1825). “The Works of Richard Cecil: With a Memoir of His Life”, p.368

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

  Richard Cecil

  Heart, Religion, Belief

  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.166

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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.

  Richard Cecil

  Running, Lying, 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.177

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