Inspirational Quotes by Richard Cecil
“The grandest operations, both in nature and grace, are the most silent and imperceptible. The shallow brook babbles in its passage and is heard by every one; but the coming on of the seasons is silent and unseen. The storm rages and alarms, but its fury is soon exhausted, and its effects are but partial and soon remedied; but the dew, though gentle and unheard, is immense in quantity, and is the very life of large portions of the earth. And these are pictures of the operations of grace in the church and in the soul.”
“If I have made an appointment with you, I owe you punctuality, I have no right to throw away your time, if I do my own.”
topics: Honesty
“The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.”
“Nothing can be proposed so wild or so absurd as not to find a party, and often a very large party to espouse it.”
topics: Ignorance
“There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.”
topics: Life
“Metaphysicians can unsettle things, but they can erect nothing. They can pull down a church, but they cannot build a hovel.”
topics: Life
“Every man is an original and solitary character. None can either understand or feel the book of his own life like himself.”
topics: Life
“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.”
“Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.”
“To persevere in one's duty, and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.”
topics: Perseverance
“Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation.”
topics: Philosophy
“Our Heavenly Father always sends His children the things they ask, or better things.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.”
topics: Prayer
“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.”
“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.”
topics: Prayer
“The world looks at preachers out of church to know what they mean in it.”
topics: Preaching
“It requires as much reflection and wisdom to know what is not to be put into a sermon, as what is.”
topics: Preaching
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Richard Cecil was a leading Evangelical Anglican clergyman of the 18th and 19th centuries. His father was an Anglican while his mother was a Dissenter, whose family had been devout Christians for generations.
He later became minister of two small livings in Lewes, Sussex. After the death of his parents, he moved, because of bad health, to Islington, London and preached at different churches and chapels there. For some years he preached a lecture at Lothbury at 6 o'clock on a Sabbath morning, and later an evening lecture in Orange Street, followed by the chapel in Long Acre. From 1787 he preached the evening lecture at Christ Church, Spitalfields.
In 1788 he became minister of St John's Chapel, Bedford Row, which became a major Evangelical Anglican venue continuing into the mid 19th century.