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Just as soon as any conviction of important truth becomes central and vital, there comes the desire to utter it—a desire which is immediate and irresistible. Sacrifice is gladness, service is joy, when such an idea becomes a commanding power.

— Richard Salter Storrs Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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Always carry with you into the pulpit a sense of the immense consequences which may depend on your full and faithful presentation of the truth.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God forgives; forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine prearrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an atonement, and on the condition of repentance and faith.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Whether you do your work with notes or without them, do it courageously, earnestly, with devotion; with a glad sense of the greatness of it, and a full consecration of every force and faculty to it.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

To speak for Him will be our impulse. No matter how timid, nervous, self-diffident, we are in ourselves, as we touch His pierced and royal hand, we shall be instantly masterful and strong.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that is, in which the present feeling and thought of the teaching mind break into natural and forceful expression.

Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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