Richard Cecil
Richard Cecil
Richard Cecilwas a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1748
learning ignorant firsts
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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.
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.
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.
evil speak feels
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
redemption machines wonderful
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.
worst folly prepare-for-the-worst
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
grateful humble men
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.
loss men years
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