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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22 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Pardon

Pardon: God forgives; forgives not capriciously, but with wise, definite, Divine prearrangement; forgives universally, on the ground of an…

Parents

Parents: You that are parents, discharge your duty; though you cannot impart grace to your children, yet you may impart knowledge. Let your…

Passions

Passions: We should employ our passions in the service of life, not spend life in the service of our passions.

Patience

Patience: The disciples of a patient Saviour should be patient themselves.

Patriotism

Patriotism: To be a good patriot, a man must consider his countrymen as God's creatures, and himself as accountable for his acting towards…

Peace

Peace: When Christ was about to leave the world, He made His will. His soul He committed to His father; His body He bequeathed to Joseph to…

Penitence

Penitence: The law can never save us; and he is nearest to the forgiveness of the gospel who, with a contrite heart, discerns most clearly…

Perfection

Perfection: There is but one true good for a spiritual being, and this is found in its perfection. Men are slow to see this truth; and yet…

Persecution

Persecution: It has become a settled principle that nothing which is good and true can be destroyed by persecution, but that the effect…

Perseverance

Perseverance: Perseverance is the master impulse of the firmest souls, the discipline of the noblest virtues, and the guaranty of…

Piety

Piety: Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.

Pity

Pity: We must watch over pious impressions, and cultivate them, or they will never become vigorous and enduring.

Poverty

Poverty: The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves; " but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most…

Power

Power: It is not possible to found a lasting power upon injustice, perjury, and treachery.

Praise

Praise: Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force.

Prayer

Prayer: True prayer is an earnest soul's direct converse with its God.

Prayer-Meetings

Prayer-Meetings: I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can…

Preaching

Preaching: Jesus chose this method of extending the knowledge of Himself throughout the world; He taught His truth to a few men, and then…

Prejudice

Prejudice: I verily believe that the kingdom of God advances more on spoken words than it does on essays written and read; on words, that…

Pride

Pride: Pride is the master sin of the devil.

Procrastination

Procrastination: Of all the marvelous works of God, perhaps there is nothing that angels behold with such astonishment as a proud man.

Profanity

Profanity: Nothing is a greater sacrilege than to prostitute the great name of God to the petulance of an idle tongue. The foolish and…

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