Richard Cecil (clergyman): Quotes about religion

Richard Cecil (clergyman) was British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on religion.
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“If you are seeking the comforts of religion rather than the glory of our Lord, you are on the wrong track. The Comforter meets us unsought in the path of duty.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 501.
Context: If you are seeking the comforts of religion rather than the glory of our Lord, you are on the wrong track. The Comforter meets us unsought in the path of duty. There is something in religion, when rightly comprehended, that is masculine and grand. It removes those little desires which are the constant hectic of a fool.

“The Old and New Testaments contain but one scheme of religion. Neither part of this scheme can be understood without the other.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 32.

“Religion is such a belief of the Bible as maintains a living influence on the heart.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 494.

“The Christian will sometimes be brought to walk in a solitary path. God seems to cut away his props, that He may reduce him to Himself. His religion is to be felt as a personal, particular, appropriate possession. He is to feel, that, as there is but one Jehovah to bless, so there seems to him as though there were but one penitent in the universe to be blessed by Him.”

Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 264.