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Christ is the ideal of what a man should be.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Success is full of promise till men get it; and then it is last year's nest from which the bird has flown.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There are many persons of combative tendencies, who read for ammunition, and dig out of the Bible iron for balls.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The soul's inarticulate moanings are the affections yearning for the Infinite, and having no one to tell them what it is that ails them.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
So men turn the word of God into a vast arsenal, filled with all manner of weapons, offensive and defensive.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence, — as a compliment from God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
To the Christian, these shades are the golden haze which heaven's light makes, when it meets the earth, and mingles with its shadows.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The whole of the Saviour's ministerial life, at least the part of it that stands on record, was passed in what we may call substantially a revival work.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
My life lies beyond the present.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And when no longer we can see Thee, may we reach out our hands, and find Thee leading us through death to immortality and glory.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Whoever lives a noble life for Christ and God — he is one of God's workmen, working on that building of which God is the supreme Architect.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When, O crowned Jesus; when, O loving Saviour; when, O patient and just Judge — when wilt Thou come forth from Thy hiding, and change tears to smiles, and groans to joys?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And now we beseech of Thee that we may have every day some such sense of God's mercy and of the power of God about us, as we have of the fullness of the light of heaven before us.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Bible is God's chart for you to steer by, to keep you from the bottom of the sea, and to show you where the harbor is, and how to reach it without running on rocks or bars.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Live for the other life. Endure as seeing Him who is invisible. Work by faith; work by hope; work by love; work by courage; work by trust; work by the sweet side of your mind; and so be like Christ, until you dwell with Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Like the cellar-growing vine is the Christian who lives in the darkness and bondage of fear. But let him go forth, with the liberty of God, into the light of love, and he will be like the plant in the field, healthy, robust, and joyful.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
May we grow more and more like God and heaven, more gracious, helpful, and sweet-minded; and when at last Thou hast served Thyself by us, may we fall asleep in Jesus, and find it no sleep, but everlasting waking in Jesus.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah! what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It is not to come in any particular way, or with any particular experience, but to arise and come to your Father, and say unto Him, "Father I have sinned against heaven and before Thee, and am no more worthy to be called Thy son; make me as one of Thy hired servants."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)