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Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.

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Richard Cecil
Age: 61 †
Born: 1748
Born: November 8
Died: 1810
Died: August 15
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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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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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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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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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Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.
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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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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
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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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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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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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Prayer is faith passing into action.
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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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The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.
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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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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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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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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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Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.
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Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.
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