Richard Cecil Quotes

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

To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end.

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.

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

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

Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

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

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

Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.

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

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.

The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.