Richard Cecil
Richard Cecil
Richard Cecilwas a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1748
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The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be
learning ignorant firsts
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
prayer writing done
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.
beauty beautiful years
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.
cheating nurse infidelity
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
prayer action passing
Prayer is faith passing into action.
motivational self will-and-determination
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
mystery revelations providence
Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.
humility dust way
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.
evil good-evil unbelief
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
sorrow affliction bitterness
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
entity fixed policy
There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
settling easier
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
bible old-and-new schemes
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.