“The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: — they acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced in His will in all things.”

— Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 435.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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