Richard Cecil Quotes
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Think of the ills from which you are exempt, and it will aid you to bear patiently those which now you may suffer.
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To have too much forethought is the part of a wretch; to have too little is the part of a fool.
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To love to preach is one thing - to love those to whom we preach, quite another.
[Preaching]
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To persevere in one's duty, and be silent, is the best answer to calumny.
[Calumny]
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We hear much of a decent pride, a becoming pride, a noble pride, a laudable pride. Can that be decent, of which we ought to be ashamed? Can that be becoming, of which God has set forth the deformity? Can that be noble which God resists and is determined to abase? Can that be laudable, which God calls abominable?
[Pride]
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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 has 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.
[Trials]
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Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.
[Wisdom]
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