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Unless we are wedded to Jesus Christ by the simple act of trust in His mercy and His power, Christ is nothing to us.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let the current of your being set towards God, then your life will be filled and calmed by one master-passion which unites and stills the soul.
Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.
Duty is duty, conscience is conscience, right is right, and wrong is wrong, whatever sized type they may be printed in. " Large" or "small" are not words for the vocabulary of conscience.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The cup which my Saviour giveth me, can it be any thing but a cup of salvation?
Nothing but Christian faith gives to the furthest future the solidity and definiteness which it must have if it is to be a breakwater for us against the fluctuating sea of present cares and thoughts.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The mystery of the universe, and the meaning of God's world, are shrouded in hopeless obscurity, until we learn to feel that all laws suppose a lawgiver, and that all working involves a Divine energy.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Faith refers to Christ. Holiness depends on faith. Heaven depends on holiness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Being in Christ, it is safe to forget the past; it is possible to be sure of the future; it is possible to be diligent in the present.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Nobody can commit his way unto the Lord who has not begun by delighting in the Lord; and nobody can rest in the Lord who has not committed his way to the Lord.
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, even while in sorrow and sore need, will always end in thankfulness and triumph and praise.
You must cast yourself on God's gospel with all your weight, without any hanging back, without any doubt, without even the shadow of a suspicion that it will give.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particle is duty.
Three Thousand Selected Quotations From Brilliant Writers (1909)
Seekest thou a place at my right hand? Nay, I give thee a more wondrous dignity. "To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The more we work the more we need to pray. In this day of activity there is great danger, not of doing too much, but of praying too little for so much work.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Our work, abiding, shall bring to us the endless glory with which God at last overpays the toils, even as now He overanswers the poor prayers of His laboring servants.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God gives us power to bear all the sorrows of His making; but He does not give us power to bear the sorrows of our own making, which the anticipation of sorrow most assuredly is.
It was a deep true thought which the old painters had, when they drew John as likest to his Lord. Love makes us like.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Dear brethren, make your choice. Fight you must. Are you going to win or be beaten? Make your choice of the image you must bear. Whose?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The grave has a door on its inner side.