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I never yet have known the Spirit of God to work where the Lord's people were divided.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Merely reading the Bible is no use at all without we study it thoroughly, and hunt it through, as it were, for some great truth.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
As a dead man cannot inherit an estate, no more can a dead soul inherit heaven. The soul must be resurrected in Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Study the Bible topically. If you will study assurance for a week, you will soon find it is your privilege to know that you are a child of God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If Jesus bore the cross, and died on it for me, ought I not to be willing to take it up for Him?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The last business of Christ's life was the saving of a poor penitent thief.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
"He will reprove the world of sin" —not because men swear and lie and steal and get drunk and murder— "of sin because they believe not on me."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of looking to Christ, they are looking at the bite of sin.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
No man ever sought Christ with a heart to find Him who did not find Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
My friends, there is one spot on earth where the fear of Death, of Sin, and of Judgment, need never trouble us, the only safe spot on earth where the sinner can stand — Calvary.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The work of the Spirit is to impart life, to implant hope, to give liberty, to testify of Christ, to guide us into all truth, to teach us all things, to comfort the believer, and to convict the world of sin.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Go through John's Gospel, and study the "believes," the "verilys," the " I ams; "and go through the Bible in that way, and it becomes a new book to you.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Depend upon it, as long as the church is living so much like the world, we cannot expect our children to be brought into the fold.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Spirit of God first imparts love; He next inspires hope, and then gives liberty; and that is about the last thing we have in a good many of our churches at the present time.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When I read the life of such a man as Paul, how I blush to think how sickly and dwarfed Christianity is at the present time, and how many hundreds there are who never think of working for the Son of God and honoring Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The promise is: "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee." Now, as long as our minds are stayed on our dear selves, we shall never have peace.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ died for the ungodly. And if you turn to Him at this moment with an honest heart, and receive Him simply as your Saviour and your God, I have the authority of His word for telling you that He will in no wise cast out.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Would you be free from the condemnation of the sins that are past, from the power of the temptations that are to come? Then take your stand on the Rock of Ages. Let death, let the grave, let the judgment come, the victory is Christ's and yours through Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I never saw a useful Christian who was not a student of the Bible. If a man neglects his Bible, he may pray and ask God to use him in His work; but God cannot make much use of him, for there is not much for the Holy Ghost to work upon.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
My friends, does God invite you? If He does, why don't you accept the invitation? If you want to come, just come along, and don't be talking about feeling. Do you think Lazarus had any feeling when Christ called him out of the sepulchre?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)