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“Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.”
“Duties are ours; events are God's. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only, can he securely lay down his head, and close his eyes.”
“The spirit and tone of your home will have great influence on your children. If it is what it ought to be, it will fasten conviction on their minds, however wicked they may become.”
“I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.”
“Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.”
“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."”
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Richard Cecil (8 November 1748 – 15 August 1810) was a leading Evangelical Anglican priest of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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