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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26 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Gentleness

Gentleness: And if you ask what is the temper which is most fitted to be victorious over sin on earth, I answer that in it the warp of a…

Glory

Glory: Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties…

God

God: What is God? The telescope by which we hold converse with the stars, the microscope which unveils the secrets of nature, the crucible…

God the Creator

God The Creator: Brethren, the Deity was not revealed to gratify our curiosity, or to increase our pride of intellect, but to bring us into…

God's Eternity

God'S Eternity: As Phidias contrived his mechanism so that his memory could never be obliterated without the destruction of his work, so…

God's Fatherhood

God'S Fatherhood: It Fatherhood what does that word itself teach us? It speaks of the communication of a life, and the reciprocity of love…

God's Faithfulness

God'S Faithfulness: If you were to spend a month feeding on the precious promises of God, you would not be going about with your heads…

God's Goodness

God'S Goodness: Whatever may be the mysteries of life and death, there is one mystery which the cross of Christ reveals to us, and that is…

God's Guidance

God'S Guidance: Guide me, O Thou great Jehovah, Pilgrim through this barren land; I am weak, but Thou art mighty; Hold me with Thy powerful…

God's Infinity

God'S Infinity: The human mind may know God, and learn of God, though it has no terms by which to explain Him; it may think of Him as…

God's Justice

God'S Justice: Because I believe in a God of absolute and unbounded love, therefore I believe in a loving anger of His which will and must…

God's Kingdom

God'S Kingdom: The kingdom of God which is within us consists in our willing whatever God wills, always, in every thing, and without…

God's Love

God'S Love: We never know through what Divine mysteries of compensation the great Father of the universe may be carrying out His sublime…

God's Mercy

God'S Mercy: Depth of mercy! - can there be Mercy still reserved for me ? Can my God His wrath forbear? Me, the chief of sinners, spare?

God's Omnipotence

God'S Omnipotence: - There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls…

God's Omniscience

God'S Omniscience: He knoweth all; the end Is clear as the beginning to His eye; Then wait in peace, secure though storms roll by, He…

God's Presence

God'S Presence: Life should be a constant vision of God's presence. Here is our defense against being led away by the gauds and shows of…

God's Providence

God'S Providence: God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

God's Sovereignty

God'S Sovereignty: Even when the shadows of trial are falling around us, let us "pass through the cloud" with the sustaining motive - "All…

God's Trinity

God'S Trinity: We worship unity in trinity, and trinity in unity; neither confounding the person nor dividing the substance. There is one…

Goodness

Goodness: in the outward things we do, but in

Gospel

Gospel: The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all…

Gratitude

Gratitude: Gratitude is the memory of the heart. We can set our deeds to the music of a grateful heart, and seek to round our lives into a…

Grave

Grave: The grave is a very small hillock, but we can see farther from it, when standing on it, than from the highest mountain in all the…

Greatness

Greatness: The greatest man is he who chooses the right with the most invincible resolution; who resists the sorest temptation from within…

Growth In Grace

Growth In Grace: The highest point of Christian experience is to press forward. It is a distinguishing trait in the character of every good…

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