Richard Cecil may refer to:
In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
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.
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
Method is the very hinge of business, and there is no method without punctuality.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.
A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.
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.
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
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.
The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.