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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.
Richard Cecil
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Richard Cecil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1748
Born: November 8
Died: 1810
Died: August 15
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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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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.
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Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.
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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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The nurse of infidelity is sensuality.
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The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
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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.
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Time can take nothing from the BIBLE. It is the living monitor. Like the sun, it is the same in its light and influence to man this day which it was years ago. It can meet every present inquiry and console every present loss
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Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.
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Unbelief starves the soul faith finds food in famine.
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Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
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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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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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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
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The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.
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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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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.
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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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Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.
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In viewing the scheme of redemption, I seem like one viewing a vast and complicated machine of exquisite contrivance what I comprehend of it is wonderful, what I do not, is, perhaps, more so still.
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