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Consult the honor of religion more, and your personal safety less. Is it for the honor of religion (think you) that Christians should be as timorous as hares to start at every sound?

— John Flavel Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Christ bounds and terminates the vast desires of the soul; He is the very Sabbath of the soul.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

How much better it is to see men live exactly than to hear them argue with subtlety!

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

See that you receive Christ with all your heart. As there is nothing in Christ that may be refused, so there is nothing in you from which He must be excluded.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

They that know God will be humble,
They that know themselves cannot be proud.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Unbelief makes a man guilty of the vilest contempt of Christ, and the whole design of redemption by Him.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage.

Bertrand Russell Education and the Social Order (1932)

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