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This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he lives the life of God, and hath eternal life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I believe not only in "special providences," but in the whole universe as one infinite complexity of "special providences."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If thou art fighting against thy sins, so is God. On thy side is God who made all, and Christ who died for all and the Spirit who alone gives wisdom, purity, and nobleness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The righteousness which is by faith in Christ is a loving heart and a loving life, which every man will long to lead who believes really in Jesus Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The health of a church depends not merely on the creed which it professes, not even on the wisdom and holiness of a few great ecclesiastics, but on the faith and virtue of its individual members.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There are two freedoms — the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where a man is free to do what he ought.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And therefore let us say, in utter faith, "Come as Thou seest best — but in whatsoever way Thou comest — even so come, Lord Jesus."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Take comfort, and recollect however little you and I may know, God knows; He knows Himself and you and me and all things; and His mercy is over all His works.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let us be content to do little, if God sets us at little tasks. It is but pride and self-will which says, "Give me something huge to fight, — and I should enjoy that — but why make me sweep the dust?"
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And what is the joy of Christ? The joy and delight which springs forever in His great heart, from feeling that He is forever doing good; from loving all, and living for all; from knowing that if not all, yet millions on millions are grateful to Him, and will be forever.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more, He asks of thee works first and words after.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is the infinite and absolute goodness of God. Let all the rest remain a mystery so long as the mystery of the cross of Christ gives us faith for all the rest.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And how high is Christ's cross? As high as the highest heaven, and the throne of God, and the bosom of the Father — that bosom out of which forever proceed all created things. Ay, as high as the highest heaven! for — if you will receive it — when Christ hung upon the cross, heaven came down on earth, and earth ascended into heaven.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)