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 thinking soul
We are urgent about the body; He is about the soul. We call for present comforts; He considers our everlasting rest. And therefore when He sends not the very things we ask, He hears us by sending greater than we can ask or think.
christian prayer hours
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
prayer men soul
The only instance of praying to saints, mentioned in the Bible, is that of the rich man in torment calling upon Abraham; and let it be remembered, that it was practised only by a lost soul and without success.
children prayer father
Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.
prayer action passing
Prayer is faith passing into action.
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.
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.