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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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty of Christ. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from. His character. The greatest truth of the gospel is Christ Himself — a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)