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Quotes from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers — Samuel I. Prime

1812–1885 United States

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Happy are they who freely mingle prayer and toil till God responds to the one and rewards the other.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Recreation is not the highest kind of enjoyment; but in its time and place it is quite as proper as prayer.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Patience and perseverance are never more thoroughly Christian graces than when features of prayer.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God is the only sure foundation on which the mind can rest.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Staying where you now are, you must perish; coming to Christ, you can but perish; coming to Christ, no one ever did perish; while you sit still and starve, there is bread enough and to spare in your Father's house. Will you return?

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

If you feel sincerely sorry on account of your sins, and believe that Christ is able and willing to forgive you, the work is done. You may trust with all the confidence of a child who confesses his fault, and casts himself into his father's arms. This is faith; a simple trust in the power and willingness of the Father to forgive, for the sake of what Christ the Son has done.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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