60 Quotes by Richard Cecil

The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.

The government of the United States is not entitled to affirm as a universal proposition, with reference to a number of independent States for whose conduct it assumes no responsibility, that its interests are necessarily concerned in whatever may be

Let family worship be short, savory, simple, plain, tender, heavenly.

The world looks at ministers out of the pulpit to know that they mean in it.

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.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine.

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.

Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf.