A Dictionary of Burning Words

Six hundred pages of the sharpest lines from 'the literature of all ages,' filed by subject — built for orators, preachers and anyone who needs the perfect quotation.

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Alexander Maclaren

129 quotations

F. W. Robertson

90 quotations

T. L. Cuyler

64 quotations

C. H. Spurgeon

63 quotations

Horace Bushnell

62 quotations

Fenelon

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Love

Love: Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Pity

Pity: We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.

Poverty

Poverty: The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves; " but to our mind, it is just the rich who…

Worth

Worth: I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be…

Christian Fellowship

Christian Fellowship: The same bond which unites believers to Christ binds them to each other. The love which is exercised…

Regeneration

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

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