Richard Cecil Quotes

As the years pass, and we look back on something which, at the time, seemed unbelievably discouraging and unfair, we come to realize that, after all, God was at all times on our side. The eventual outcome was, we discover, by far the best solution for us, and what we thought should have been to our best advantage, would in reality have been quite detrimental.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

God won't allow anything happen in your life if it's not for your good.

If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?

As we grow older I always think, why didn't I do more when I was young, why didn't I risk more?

If you could go back and change things, you might not be the person you are right now.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

You look at the road you could have taken, you know, I just think that's interesting... I've been on a lot of roads and I had to hitchhike on a couple of 'em... I have to be very honest: There's not an awful lot of regret in my life. I think that, you know, you learn from everything, and then, sometimes, you don't.

I don't regret anything in life.

You can't stop what God wants to happen.

I'm not really one for regrets, but one thing I do wish is that I'd gone down south sooner.

I'm lucky that I don't have any big regrets. Maybe that undercut hairstyle from my youth.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

Only in hindsight do we understand how God intended a problem for good.

I'm older, and I wish that a lot of things that I did in my life, I didn't do, but I'm able to talk about it.

Some unanswered prayers are only because God doesn't want to do something for us. He wants to do something through us.

Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.

God's hand never slips. He never makes a mistake. His every move is for our own good and for our ultimate good.

I was in such a hurry to be an actor. Now I'm sometimes mad at myself that I didn't stop and study for a couple of years.

God never made His work for man to mend.

If I had it all to do over again, I would do most all things differently. However, how would I know that if, I had not had the opportunity to do them the first time.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.