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You will find that for a smoking flax there is no specific like heaven's oxygen; for a faint and flickering piety there is no cure comparable to the one without which all our own exertions are but an effort to light a lamp in a vacuum — the breath of the Holy Spirit.

— James Hamilton Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Seek not only to know about the Saviour, but seek confidence in Him, seek to know Him as your own.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

What Jesus spoke was Truth; the way He spoke was gracious. He spoke the truth in love. God is love, and the Son of God spoke lovingly.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer.

Humility is the grace which lies prostrate at God's footstool, self-abasing and self-disparaging, amazed at God's mercy, and abhorring its own vileness.

The word of God is solid; it will stand a thousand readings; and the man who has gone over it the most frequently and the most carefully is the surest of finding new wonders there.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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