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.

Ignorance

Ignorance: He that voluntarily continues ignorant is guilty of all the crimes which ignorance produces.

Immortality

Immortality: Immortality! We bow before the very term. Immortality! Before it reason staggers, calculation reclines her tired head, and…

Impenitent

Impenitent: It is not sin that kills the soul, but impenitence.

Indifference

Indifference: A brother in the Lord could never get a young lady to think about eternity until he quoted this text: "The wicked shall be…

Indolence

Indolence: Indolence is the worst enemy that the church has to encounter. Men sleep around her altar, stretching themselves on beds of…

Industry

Industry: The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations…

Infidelity

Infidelity: No matter where the skeptical thought originates, or how it gets access to our minds, we see at once that it flattens the level…

Influence

Influence: The Bible calls the good man's life a light; and it is the nature of light to flow out spontaneously in all directions, and fill…

Integrity

Integrity: Give us a man, young or old, high or low, on whom we know we can thoroughly depend-who will stand firm when others fail - the…

Intellect

Intellect: The intellect has only one failing, which to be sure, is a very considerable one. It has no conscience. Napoleon is the readiest…

Intemperance

Intemperance: Intemperance is a hydra with a hundred heads. She never stalks abroad unaccompanied with impurity, anger, and the most…

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