Richard Cecil (clergyman): Man

Richard Cecil (clergyman) was British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on man.
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“The man who labors to please his neighbor for his good to edification has the mind that was in Christ. It is a sinner trying to help a sinner. Even a feeble, but kind and tender man, will effect more than a genius, who is rough and artificial.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 128.

Help , Christ

“I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 394.

World

“Never was there a man of deep piety, who has not been brought into extremities — who has not been put into fire — who has been taught to say, "Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him."”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 585.

“Every man will have his own criterion in forming his judgment of others. I depend very much on the effect of affliction. I consider how a man comes out of the furnace; gold will lie for a month in the furnace without losing a grain.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 9.

Lie , Affliction , Dependency

“An idle man has a constant tendency to torpidity. He has adopted the Indian maxim — that it is better to walk than to run, and better to stand than to walk, and better to sit than to stand, and better to lie than to sit. He hugs himself into the notion, that God calls him to be quiet.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 345.

God , Lie

“A friend called on me when I was ill, to settle some business. My head was too much confused by my indisposition to understand fully what he said, but I had such unlimited confidence in him, that I did whatever he bid me, in the fullest assurance that it was right. How simply I can trust in man, and how little in God! How unreasonable is a pure act of faith in one like ourselves, if we cannot repose the same faith in God.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 598.

God , Faith , Confidence , Understanding