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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)
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 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)
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)
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)
It is more true to say that our opinions depend upon our lives and habits than to say that our lives depend upon our opinions, which is only now and then true.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
He who lives to God rests in his Redeemer's love, and is trying to get rid of his old nature — to him every sorrow, every bereavement, every pain, will come charged with blessings, and death itself will be no longer the " king of terrors," but the messenger of grace.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
This is the secret of Christ's kingship— "He became obedient — wherefore God also hath highly exalted Him." And this is the secret of all obedience and all command. Obedience to a law above you subjugates minds to you who never would have yielded to mere will.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Sow the seeds of life — humbleness, pure-heartedness, love; and in the long eternity which lies before the soul, every minutest grain will come up again with an increase of thirty, sixty, or a hundred fold.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There are few signs in a soul's state more alarming than that of religious indifference, that is, the spirit of thinking all religions equally true— the real meaning of which is, that all religions are equally false.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
You cannot undo your acts. If you have depraved another's will, and injured another's soul, it may be in the grace of God that hereafter you will be personally accepted, and the consequence of your guilt inwardly done away; but your penitence cannot undo the evil you have done. The forgiveness of God — the blood of Christ itself — does not undo the past.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)