Tag: Quote: Richard Cecil

  • MUCH PRAYER THE PRICE OF UNCTION

    Power Through Prayer All the minister’s efforts will be vanity or worse than vanity if he have not unction. Unction must come down from heaven and spread a savor and feeling and relish over his ministry; and among the other means of qualifying himself for his office, the Bible must hold the first place, and…

  • HEART PREPARATION NECESSARY

    Power Through Prayer For nothing reaches the heart but what is from the heart or pierces the conscience but what comes from a living conscience. — William Penn In the morning was more engaged in preparing the head than the heart. This has been frequently my error, and I have always felt the evil of…

  • PRAYER AND DEVOTION UNITED

    Power Through Prayer There is a manifest want of spiritual influence on the ministry of the present day. I feel it in my own case and I see it in that of others. I am afraid there is too much of a low, managing, contriving, maneuvering temper of mind among us. We are laying ourselves…