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Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.
O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
No state of virtue is complete, however total the virtue, save as it is won by a conflict with evil, and fortified by the struggles of a resolute and even bitter experience.
We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The moment you can make a very simple discovery; viz., that obligation to God is your privilege, and is not imposed as a burden, your experience will teach you many things.
Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.