Quotes from Richard Cecil

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

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 world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

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.

If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.

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

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

All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.

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

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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