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This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Do you want to learn holiness with terrible struggles and sore affliction and the plague of much remaining evil? Then wait before you turn to God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Mourning after an absent God is an evidence of a love as strong, as rejoicing in a present one.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
In all matters of eternal truth, the soul is before the intellect; the things of God are spiritually discerned. You know truth by being true; you recognize God by being like Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God's truth is too sacred to be expounded to superficial worldliness in its transient fit of earnestness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A life of prayer is a life whose litanies are ever fresh acts of self-devoting love.
The Christian life is not knowing or hearing, but doing.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as Christ hated them — with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This is the true liberty of Christ, when a free man binds himself in love to duty. Not in shrinking from our distasteful occupations, but in fulfilling them, do we realize our high origin.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.
A consistent Christian may not have rapture; he has that which is much better than rapture — calmness — God's serene and perpetual presence.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a spiritual reality.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons of God must have something of that spirit which marked his Master.
If you think that you can sin, and then by cries avert the consequences of sin, you insult God's character.
Child of God, if you would have your thought of God something beyond a cold feeling of His presence, let faith appropriate Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
To grieve over sin is one thing, to repent is another.
What the world calls virtue is a name and a dream without Christ. The foundation of all human excellence must be laid deep in the blood of the Redeemer's cross, and in the power of His resurrection.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure — only the love that was tested by pain — the love of perfect obedience.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to come.