What They Said

“Being a godly spouse is such a big challenge that you must prepare for it well beforehand. It is no wonder that so many marriages fail! Too often the husband does not know how to rule, the wife does not know how to obey. They are both ignorant, conceited, and miserable. Therefore, parents ought to teach their children about the duties of marriage. Otherwise families, which should be the nurseries of the church, prove to be hotbeds of disorder and immorality.”

Richard Steele

“Love is the foundation of all other duties toward her. Everything flows from this. Without love, every performance of duty toward her seems hard. Tenderness, honor, care, and kindness are merely the beams from the sun of love.”

Richard Steele

“As there are thousands of beams and rays, yet they all meet and center in the sun. So an upright man, though he has a thousand thoughts, yet they all (by his good will) meet in God. He has many subordinate ends—to procure a livelihood, to preserve his credit, to provide for his children—but he has no supreme end but God alone. Hence, he has that steadiness in his resolutions, that undistractedness in his holy duties, that consistency in his actions, and that evenness in the frame of his heart, which miserable hypocrites cannot attain.”

Richard Steele

“Contentment, as it relates to this subject, is a cheerful satisfaction in the place and calling wherein God hath set us.”

Richard Steele
Speaking on ones trade

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“Justice obliges the tradesman to make conscientious bargains;  that he neither sells too dear, nor buys too cheap;  but does by others as he would be dealt by himself.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“Diligence, as it relates to trade, is an habitual employment of our bodily and mental powers about our proper calling, in a just and happy medium between idleness, supineness, and trifling curiosity on the one hand, and slavish drudging and immodertate care on the other.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“The first thing necessary for a happy progress in business, is prudence or discretion.  This, as it relates to trade, is a habit of mind enabling us to conduct our affairs in the wisest and best manner; or, in other words, it is pursuing the proper end, by the best means, and in the fittest time.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)

“Let the study of the sacred scriptures constantly employ some part of your leisure hours;  these are the surest guides to duty and happiness.”

Richard Steele

(From: The Religious Tradesman)