Richard Cecil may refer to:
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
Abraham teaches us the right way of conversing with God : "And Abraham fell on his face, and God talked with him. " When we plead with Him, our faces should be in the dust.
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
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.
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 is faith passing into action.
An accession of wealth is a dangerous predicament for a man. At first he is stunned if the accession be sudden, and is very humble and very grateful. Then he begins to speak a little louder, people think him more sensible, and soon he thinks himself so.
Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
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.
The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
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.
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.
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.
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.