A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their caparisons of title, wealth, and place, he considers but as harness.
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes. - Richard Cecil
All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth, but error still. Truth lies between extremes.
- Richard Cecil
Eloquence is vehement simplicity. - Richard Cecil
Eloquence is vehement simplicity.
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant. - Richard Cecil
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
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
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.
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh. - Richard Cecil
Example is more forcible than precept. People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.
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 pos… - Richard Cecil
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 pos…
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it. - Richard Cecil
It is much easier to settle a point than to act on it.
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture. - Richard Cecil
The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. - Richard Cecil
Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse.
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