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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5 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Joy

Joy: "The joy of the Lord is your strength," my brother. Nothing else is. No vehement resolutions, no sense of your own sinfulness, nor…

Judging

Judging: The Holy Spirit would lead us to think much upon our own sins. It is a dangerous thing for us to dwell upon the imperfections of…

Judgment-Day

Judgment-Day: Standing on my watch-tower, I am commanded, if I see aught of evil coming, to give warning. I solemnly declare that I do…

Justice

Justice: The deeds we do, the words we say, Into still air they seem to fleet; We count them ever past; But they shall last - In the dread…

Justification

Justification: We are accounted righteous before God, only for the merit of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by faith, and not for our own…

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