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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11 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Earnestness

Earnestness: This world is given as a prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world is truer still of the world to…

Earth

Earth: This poor world, the object of so much insane attachment, we are about to leave; it is but misery, vanity, and folly; a phantom…

Enemies

Enemies: We pray for our enemies; we seek to persuade those who hate us without cause to live conformably to the goodly precepts of Christ…

Enthusiasm

Enthusiasm: Enthusiasm is the element of success in every thing. It is the light that leads, and the strength that lifts men on and up in…

Envy

Envy: Depend upon it, my younger brethren, the bright, self-sacrificing enthusiasms of early manhood are among the most precious things in…

Eternal Life

Eternal Life: This is eternal life; a life of everlasting love, showing itself in everlasting good works; and whosoever lives that life, he…

Eternity

Eternity: Beyond the grave! As the vision rises how this side dwindles into nothing - a speck - a moment - and its glory and pomp shrink…

Evil

Evil: Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil; I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with…

Evil Speaking

Evil Speaking: Keep clear of personalities in conversation. Talk of things, objects, thoughts. The smallest minds occupy themselves with…

Evolution

Evolution: God has been always working, evolving, in His quiet power, from the seeming, the real, from the false, the true. Not for nothing…

Example

Example: The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.

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