Richard Cecil
Richard Cecil
Richard Cecilwas a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1748
prayer action passing
Prayer is faith passing into action.
cheating nurse infidelity
The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
mean people example
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
book character men
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
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.
character one-sentence sentences
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....
christian patience prayer
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.
prayer writing done
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.
lying errors reverse
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
learning ignorant firsts
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.