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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8 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Backsliding

Backsliding: Jesus, save me from the infatuation of avarice! I, too, will lay up a treasure, but Thou shalt have the keeping of it.

Baptism

Baptism: Only what coronation is in an earthly way, baptism is in a heavenly way; God's authoritative declaration in material form of a…

Beauty

Beauty: Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty…

Belief

Belief: What is meant by believing in Christ but just going with trusting and loving hearts, and committing to His love and power…

Beneficence

Beneficence: There cannot be a more glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he…

Bereavement

Bereavement: A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable…

Bible

Bible: We believe that the Holy Bible was written by men divinely inspired, and is a perfect treasure of heavenly instruction; that it has…

Brotherhood

Brotherhood: Enough of good there is in the lowest estate to sweeten life; enough of evil in the highest to check presumption; enough there…

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