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Every Christian that goes before us from this world is a ransomed spirit waiting to welcome us in heaven.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Holy practice is the most decisive evidence of the reality of our repentance. "Bring forth fruits meet for repentance."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A greater absurdity cannot be thought of than a morose, hard-hearted, covetous, proud, malicious Christian.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Christian practice is that evidence which confirms every other indication of true godliness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Consider that as a principle of love is the main principle in the heart of a real Christian, so the labor of love, is the main business of the Christian life.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Whatever in Christ had the nature of satisfaction, was by virtue of His suffering or humiliation; whatever had the nature of merit, was by virtue of His obedience or righteousness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Religion, in its purity, is not so much a pursuit as a temper; or rather it is a temper, leading to the pursuit of all that is high and holy. Its foundation is faith; its action, works; its temper, holiness; its aim, obedience to God in improvement of self, and benevolence to men.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
All the graces of Christianity always go together. They so go together that where there is one, there are all, and where one is wanting, all are wanting. Where there is faith, there are love, and hope, and humility; and where there is love, there is also trust; and where there is a holy trust in God, there is love to God; and where there is a gracious hope, there also is a holy fear of God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
If there be ground for you to trust, as you do, in your own righteousness, then all that Christ did to purchase salvation, and all that God did from the fall of man to prepare the way for it, is in vain. Consider what greater folly could you have devised to charge upon God than this, that all those things were done so needlessly; when, instead of all this, He might only have called you forth, and committed the business to you, which you think you can do so easily.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
As God carries on the work of converting the souls of fallen men through all ages, so He goes on to justify them, to blot out all their sins, and to accept them as righteous in His sight through the righteousness of Christ. He goes on to adopt and receive them from being the children of Satan to be His own children, to carry on the work of His grace which He has begun in them, to comfort them with the consolations of His Spirit, and to bestow upon them, when their bodies die, that eternal glory which is the fruit of Christ's purchase.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
What self-righteous persons take to themselves, is the same work that Christ was engaged in when He was in His agony and bloody sweat, and when He died on the cross, which was the greatest thing that ever the eyes of angels beheld. Christ could accomplish other parts of this work without cost; but this part cost Him His life, as well as innumerable pains and labors. Yet this is the part which self-righteous persons go about to accomplish for themselves.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)