Richard Cecil (clergyman)

"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."

"To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end."

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

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

"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 …"

"The nurse of infidelity is sensuality. Youth are sensual. The Bible stands in their way. It prohibits the indulgence of the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life."

"Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God."