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The root of all steadfastness is in consecration to God.
Be sure that your soul is never so intensely alive as when in the deepest abnegation it waits hushed before God.
No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The never-ceasing boom of the great ocean as it breaks on the beach, drowns all smaller sounds.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If you would know Christ at all, you must go to Him as a sinful man, or you are shut out from Him altogether.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ wrought out His perfect obedience as a man, through temptation, and by suffering.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
That is faith, cleaving to Christ, twining round Him with all the tendrils of our heart, as the vine does round its support.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Here is the manliness of manhood, that a man has a reason for what he does, and has a will in doing it.
The vision of the Divine presence ever takes the form which our circumstances most require.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Anxious care rests upon a basis of heathen worldly-mindedness and of heathen misunderstanding of the character of God.
The true confidence which is faith in Christ, and the true diffidence which is utter distrust of myself — are identical.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Heaven is endless longing, accompanied with an endless fruition — a longing which is blessedness, a longing which is life.
Yes, every sin is a mistake, and the epitaph for the sinner is, "Thou fool."
There can be no faith so feeble that Christ does not respond toil.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Turn your confidence and your fears alike into prayer.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Trust Christ! and a great benediction of tranquil repose comes down upon the calm mind and the tranquil heart.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A man may call himself a Christian—but the measure of his Christianity is the occupation of his mind and heart with the truth as it is in Jesus.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Love Christ, and then the eternity in the heart will not be a great aching void, but will be filled with the everlasting life which Christ gives and is.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If our faith in God is not the veriest sham, it demands, and will produce, the abandonment sometimes, the subordination always, of external helps and material good.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of earth's vulgar attractions.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)