Richard Cecil Quotes

• Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

  Richard Cecil

  Topics in Wisdom

  Tags in Day, Worst

• There is no such thing as a fixed policy, because policy like all organic entities is always in the making.

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  Tags in Making, Policy, Organic

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

  Richard Cecil

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  Tags in Mean, Looks

• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Topics in God, History

• The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

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  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Step, Ignorant

• Self-will so ardent and active that it will break a world to pieces to make a stool to sit on.

  Richard Cecil

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  Tags in Break, Pieces

• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Right, Made, Away

• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Topics in God

  Tags in Hope, Patience

• 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.

  Richard Cecil

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Beautiful, Best, Evil

Richard Cecil (9)

Birth:	8th November, 1748
Death:	15th August, 1810
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Clergyman

About

Cecil was born in London. His father and grandfather were scarlet dyers to the British East India Company. His mother was the sister
of Benjamin Grosvenor. His father was an Anglican while his mother was a Dissenter, whose family had been devout Christians for generations.

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