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When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.
It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A power ethical, politic, or moral, to oppress, is not from God, and is not a power, but a licentious deviation of a power; and is no more from God, but from sinful nature and the old serpent.
Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Ye have lost a child — nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The bloom fell off my branches and joy did cast off its flower
The good Husbandman may pluck His rose & gather in His lily.
Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.
It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord
Last words: "I bless the Lord that he gave me counsel."
I hang by a thread, but it is (if I may so speak) of Christ's spinning
I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)