Quotes from Richard Cecil

Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

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.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

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.

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them.

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

It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

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.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Prayer is faith passing into action.

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

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