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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.
Richard Cecil
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Richard Cecil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1748
Born: November 8
Died: 1810
Died: August 15
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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.
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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.
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Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.
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If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.
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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.
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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.
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Unbelief starves the soul faith finds food in famine.
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Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
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The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.
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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.
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Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
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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.
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
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The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
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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.
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The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
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There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.
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