The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it. — Richard Cecil Knows Copy Share Image
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life. — Richard Cecil Christian Copy Share Image
Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this… — Richard Cecil Burden Copy Share Image
The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God,… — Richard Cecil All things Copy Share Image
I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see,… — Richard Cecil Cases Copy Share Image
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and… — Richard Cecil Dangerous Copy Share Image
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than… — Richard Cecil Adopted Copy Share Image
The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is… — Richard Cecil Artificial Copy Share Image
When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer,… — Richard Cecil Beaten Copy Share Image
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And… — Richard Cecil Asks Copy Share Image
Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction.… — Richard Cecil Affliction Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent… — Richard Cecil Government Copy Share Image
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. — Richard Cecil First step Copy Share Image
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart. — Richard Cecil Belief Copy Share Image
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak. — Richard Cecil Dislike Copy Share Image
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to… — Richard Cecil Absurd Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. — Richard Cecil Christian Copy Share Image
Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on. — Richard Cecil Active Copy Share Image
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. — Richard Cecil Affliction Copy Share Image
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. — Richard Cecil Errors Copy Share Image
Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a… — Richard Cecil Consolation Copy Share Image
The religion of a sinner stands on two pillars; namely, what Christ did for us in the flesh, and what he performs… — Richard Cecil Arise Copy Share Image
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful… — Richard Cecil Attention Copy Share Image
He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his… — Richard Cecil And love Copy Share Image
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace… — Richard Cecil Affliction Copy Share Image
Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him."… — Richard Cecil Abraham Copy Share Image
Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow… — Richard Cecil Bows Copy Share Image
Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light… — Richard Cecil Bible Copy Share Image
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it. — Richard Cecil Church Copy Share Image
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things. — Richard Cecil Asks Copy Share Image
“You can't revisit a place where you were happy, as you can't re-love someone you've loved and left" ~from "Package Tour” — Richard Cecil Revisit Copy Share Image
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. — Richard Cecil Evil Copy Share Image
Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God. — Richard Cecil Communication Copy Share Image
