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To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end.

— Richard Cecil Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The grandest operations, both in nature and in grace, are the most silent and imperceptible.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I have often had occasion to observe, that a warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Providence is a greater mystery than revelation.

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