Richard Cecil Quotes - Page 2

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.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

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

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.

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.

The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.

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 nurse of infidelity is sensuality.

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.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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.