Richard Cecil
Richard Cecil
Richard Cecilwas a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth8 November 1748
running lying men
An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.
lying men gold
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.
lying errors reverse
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
affirm assumes concerned conduct entitled government interests number reference states united universal whatever whose
The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be
church looks mean preachers
The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.
time
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.
simple worship savory
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
worst folly prepare-for-the-worst
Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
mean looks world
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
motivation inspiration men
When a founder has cast a bell he does not presently fix it in the steeple, but tries it with his hammer, and beats it on every side to see if there be any flaw in it. So Christ doth not presently after he hath converted a man, convey him to heaven; but suffers him first to be beaten upon by many temptations and then exalts him to his crown.
simplicity vehement eloquence
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
soul famine unbelief
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
yield joy tears
He who sows, even with tears, the precious seed of faith, hope, and love, shall doubtless come again with joy, bringing his sheaves with him, because it is the very nature of that seed to yield a joyful harvest.
laughing leafs spears
Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.