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Labor is the true alchemist that beats out in patient transmutation the baser metals into gold.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched by the human.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let a man be firmly principled in his religion, he may travel from the tropics to the poles, it will never catch cold on the journey.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There is no inevitable connection between Christianity and cynicism. Truth is not a salad, is it, that you must always dress it with vinegar?
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
There are no trifles in the moral universe of God. Speak me a word to-day; — it shall go ringing on through the ages.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
The gospel proceeds on the basis of universal depravity; the gospel assimilates all varieties of human nature into one common experience of guilt and need and helplessness; and this is just what you do not like about it.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
And so the blasts of calumny, howl they ever so fiercely over the good man's head, contribute to his juster appreciation and to his wider fame. Preserve only a good conscience toward God, and a loving purpose toward your fellow men, and you need not wince nor tremble, though the pack of the spaniel-hearted hounds snarl at your heels.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Let it be ours to be self-reliant amidst hosts of the vacillating — real in a generation of triflers — true amongst a multitude of shams; when tempted to swerve from principle, sturdy as an oak in its maintenance; when solicited by the enticement of sinners, firm as a rock in our denial.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Amid the stirring and manifold activities of the age in which we live, to be neutral in the strife is to rank with the enemies of the Saviour. There is no greater foe to the spread of His cause in the world than the placid indifferentism which is too honorable to betray, while it is too careless or too cowardly to join Him.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Don't aim at any impossible heroisms. Strive rather to be quiet in your own sphere. Don't live in the cloudland of some transcendental heaven; do your best to bring the glory of a real heaven down, and ray it out upon your fellows in this work-day world. Seek to make trade bright with a spotless integrity, and business lustrous with the beauty of holiness.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)
Do not mourn the past, my brother; it has given place to better times. Do not dread the coming of the future; it shall dawn in brighter and safer glory. Come, and upon the altars of the faith be anointed as the Daniels of to-day, at once the prophet and the worker — the brow bright with the shining prophecy, the hands full of earnest and of holy deeds.
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)