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In heaven, knowledge shall be commensurate with the enlarged powers of the glorified soul.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Never despair of a child. The one you weep the most for at the mercy-seat may fill your heart with the sweetest joys.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
You never will be saved by works; but let us tell you most solemnly that you never will be saved without works.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
One day of good preaching is no match for six days of inconsistent practice. God will never honor His church with complete success until it completely honors Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Precious Saviour! come in spirit, and lay Thy strong, gentle grasp of love on our dear boys and girls, and keep these our lambs from the fangs of the wolf.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
As long as we work on God's line, He will aid us. When we attempt to work on our own lines, He rebukes us with failure.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
God does not give us ready money. He issues promissory notes, and then pays them when faith presents them at the throne. Each one of us has a check-book.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
I never yet have heard of a good man having fallen when he was trying to do Christ's will and trusting on Christ's help. Every fall without one exception came from venturing upon sinful ground or from venturing upon self-support.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
What right has a man to ask Jesus to forgive him, when his heart is still burning with hatred or festering with grudges against a fellow-creature? Confession, to be of any avail, must let go of its hold on the sin confessed.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The most heaven-like spots I have ever visited, have been certain rooms in which Christ's disciples were awaiting the summons of death. So far from being a "house of mourning," I have often found such a house to be a vestibule of glory.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
It is a bad sign when a new-born babe has not lungs enough to make itself heard over the whole house. It is equally a bad symptom when the new convert is born dumb, and cannot find his voice to praise God audibly.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The Christian who will sit with sealed lips when his Master is assailed, when religion is attacked, when wickedness is broached and defended, when truth is denounced, is a denier of his Lord, as guilty as Simon Peter in Pilate's hall.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
As a child walking over a slippery and dangerous path cries out, "Father, I am falling!" and has but a moment to catch his father's hand, so every believer sees hours when only the hand of Jesus comes between him and the abysses of destruction.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Faith that trusts on Jesus alone for salvation, and not on your respectable life, and the obedience that follows Him, are the indispensable steps to salvation. You admit that you have not taken these decisive steps. Then, however near you are, you are not in Christ.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
A large portion of Christ's miracles of love were wrought at the urgent request of parents for their suffering children. Is that ear gone deaf to-day? Will He not do for our children's souls what He did for the bodies of the ruler's daughter, and the dead youth at Nain?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When you sincerely embrace Jesus as your Saviour, and rest on His atonement for pardon, when you look to Him for daily direction, lean on Him for support, and are joined to Him in heart union, then you may be sure that you have got the everlasting rock bed underneath you.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
When God says to us, "Give me your load, trust me, what you cannot do, I will do for you,"He puts our faith to one of the strongest tests. He never consents to carry our burdens unless we give them to Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The demand of the day is for a higher standard and style of Christian life. Every follower of Christ must represent His religion purely, loftily, impressively, before that multitude of "Bible-readers" whose only Bible is the Christian.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)