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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12 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Labor

Labor: Labor is not, as some have erroneously supposed, a penal clause of the original curse. There was labor, bright, healthful…

Last Supper

Last Supper: Not worthy, Lord, to gather up the crumbs With trembling hand that from Thy table fall, A weary, heavy laden sinner comes To…

Law

Law: Of law there can be no less acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice the harmony of the world: all things in…

Learning Of Christ

Learning Of Christ: A man may call himself a Christian - but the measure of his Christianity is the occupation of his mind and heart with…

Liberty

Liberty: A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Life

Life: Life as we call it, is nothing but the edge of the boundless ocean of existence when it comes upon soundings.

Literature

Literature: A beautiful literature springs from the depth and fullness of intellectual and moral life, from an energy of thought and…

Little Things

Little Things: Love's secret is to be always doing things for God, and not to mind because they are such little ones.

Longing For God

Longing For God: If we would gain light either on the theory or the practice 1. We must sincerely desire the light. of religion: 2. We must…

Looking To Jesus

Looking To Jesus: My friends, look to Christ, and not to yourselves. That is what is the matter with a great many sinners; instead of…

Love

Love: Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time; effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end.

Love To Christ And God

Love To Christ And God: Saviour! teach me, day by day, Love's sweet lesson to obey; Sweeter lesson cannot be, Loving Him who first loved…

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