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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15 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Faith

Faith: Faith is the subtle chain That binds us to the Infinite.

Faith In Christ

Faith In Christ: If you have any faith, give me, for heaven's sake, a share of Your doubts you may keep to yourself, for I have a plenty of…

Faith In God

Faith In God: Faith, then, generically, is confidence in a personal being. Specifically, religious faith is confidence in God, in every…

Falsehood

Falsehood: Wisdom and truth, the offspring of the sky, are immortal; while cunning and deception, the meteors of the earth, after…

Fame

Fame: No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

Fear

Fear: Fear is entirely based on a consideration of some possible, personal, evil consequence coming down upon me from the clear sky above…

Feeling

Feeling: "Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into…

Fellowship With Christ And God

Fellowship With Christ And God: The Christian's fellowship with God is rather a habit than a rapture.

Fidelity

Fidelity: Be but faithful, that is all; Go right on, and close behind thee There shall follow still and find thee Help, sure help.

Following Jesus

Following Jesus: We must follow Jesus Christ, step by step, and not open up a path for ourselves. We can only follow Him by denying…

Forgiveness

Forgiveness: To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian…

Fortitude

Fortitude: A Christian builds his fortitude on a better foundation than stoicism; he is pleased with every thing that happens, because he…

Fretting

Fretting: Most men call fretting a minor fault, a foible, and not a vice. There is no vice except drunkenness which can so utterly destroy…

Friendship

Friendship: The friendship of high and sanctified spirits loses nothing by death but its alloy; failings disappear, and the virtues of…

Frivolity

Frivolity: riendship is a cadence of divine melody melting through the heart.

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