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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14 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Ability

Ability: Ability involves responsibility. Power to its last particie is duty.

Accountability

Accountability: Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their…

Action

Action: The end of man is an action, and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

Adoption

Adoption: Adoption is an act of God's free grace, whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to all the privileges, of the…

Adversity

Adversity: God kills thy comforts from no other design but to kill thy corruptions; wants are ordained to kill wantonness, poverty is…

Affliction

Affliction: Afflictions are but the shadow of God's wings.

Ambition

Ambition: Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

Amusement

Amusement: Amusements are to religion like breezes of air to the flame; gentle ones will fan it, but strong ones will put it out.

Anger

Anger: An unsanctified temper is a fruitful source of error, and a mighty impediment to truth.

Apostasy

Apostasy: The kiss of the apostate was the most bitter earthly ingredient in the agonies which Christ endured.

Aspiration

Aspiration: O God, Thou art my God; early will I seek Thee; my soul thirsteth for Thee; my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty…

Assurance

Assurance: Assurance of hope is more than life. It is health, strength, power, vigor, activity, energy, manliness, beauty.

Atheism

Atheism: The thing formed says that nothing formed it; and that which is made is, while that which made it is not! The folly is infinite.

Avarice

Avarice: It is impossible to conceive any contrast more entire and absolute than that which exists between a heart glowing with love to…

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