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A child of God should be a visible Beatitude, for joy and happiness, and a living Doxology, for gratitude and adoration.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This is faith, receiving the truth of Christ; first knowing it to be true, and then acting upon that belief.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I never wish to be more charitable than Christ. I find it written: "Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God works, and therefore we work; God is with- us, and therefore we are with God, and stand on His side.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Death is the waiting-room where we robe ourselves for immortality.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Jesus was a great worker, and His disciples must not be afraid of hard work.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
He that buildeth his nest upon a Divine promise shall find it abide and remain until he shall fly away to the land where promises are lost in fulfillments.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The church may go through her dark ages, but Christ is with her in the midnight; she may pass through her fiery furnace, but Christ is in the midst of the flame with her.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I believe that when Paul plants and Apollos waters, God gives the increase; and I have no patience with those who throw the blame on God when it belongs to themselves.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Do not wade far out into the dangerous sea of this world's comfort. Take the good that God provides you, but say of it, "It passeth away;" for, indeed, it is but a temporary supply for a temporary need. Never suffer your goods to become your God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God looketh upon any thing we say, or any thing we do, and if He seeth Christ in it, He accepteth it; but if there be no Christ, He putteth it away as a foul thing.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When men's hearts are melted under the preaching of the word, or by sickness, or the loss of friends, believers should be very eager to stamp the truth upon the prepared mind. Such opportunities are to be seized with holy eagerness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The vendors of flowers in the streets of London are wont to commend them to customers by crying: "All a blowing and a growing." It would be no small praise to Christians if we could say as much for them.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Many books in my library are now behind and beneath me. They were good in their way once, and so were the clothes I wore when I was ten years old; but I have outgrown them. Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and deepens with our years.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Doubts about the fundamentals of the gospel exist in certain churches, I am told, to a large extent. My dear friends, where there is a warm-hearted church, you do not hear of them. I never saw a fly light on a red-hot plate.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Faith has a saving connection with Christ. Christ is on the shore, so to speak, holding the rope, and as we lay hold of it with the hand of our confidence, He pulls us to shore; but all good works having no connection with Christ are drifted along down the gulf of fell despair.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
My trust is not that I am holy, but that, being unholy, Christ died for me. My rest is here, not in what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is and must be,— in what Christ did and is still doing as He stands before yonder throne of glory.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)