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.

Habit

Habit: A large part of Christian virtue consists in right habits.

Happiness

Happiness: Brethren, happiness is not our being's end and aim. The Christian's aim is perfection, not happiness; and every one of the sons…

Hatred

Hatred: I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy, hate cant, hate indolence, oppression, injustice; hate Pharisaism; hate them as…

Health

Health: Health is the handle by which we can apprehend and perceive pleasures; and that sauce which alone makes life delicious. Thank Him…

Heaven

Heaven: O rest of rests! O peace serene, eternal! Thou ever livest, and Thou changest never ! And in the secret of Thy presence dwelleth…

Heavenly Influences

Heavenly Influences: Millions of spiritual beings walk the earth unseen, Both when we wake, and when we sleep. Hands of invisible spirits…

Hell

Hell: What will you do in a world where the Holy Spirit never strives; where every soul is fully left to its own depravity; and where there…

Heroism

Heroism: True heroism is alike positive and progressive. It sees in right the duty which should dominate, and in truth the principle which…

Holiness

Holiness: Holiness is an unselfing of ourselves.

Holy Spirit

Holy Spirit: All that is divine in man comes from God. All that tends toward God in man is God's voice in the human heart.

Home

Home: A happy home is the single spot of rest which a man has upon this earth for the cultivation of his noblest sensibilities.

Hope

Hope: Hope proves man deathless. It is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Humility

Humility: Humility, that low, sweet root, From which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Hypocrisy

Hypocrisy: Hypocrisy is the necessary burden of villainy; affectation, part of the chosen trappings of folly! the one completes a villain…

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