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.

Reason

Reason: The light of reason ever gleams on the margin of an unmeasured and unmeasurable ocean of mystery; and however far we push our…

Redemption

Redemption: O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has…

Regeneration

Regeneration: Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Rejection Of Christ

Rejection Of Christ: How great is your sin in rejecting Jesus Christ! You slight the glorious Person for whose coming God made such great…

Religion

Religion: The ground of all religion, that which makes it possible, is the relation in which the human soul stands to God,

Repentance

Repentance: True repentance consists in the heart being broken for sin and broken from sin.

Reputation

Reputation: There is one case of death-bed repentance recorded - the penitent thief- that no one should despair; and only one, that no one…

Resignation

Resignation: Thy way, not mine, O Lord, However dark it be! Lead me by Thine own hand; Choose out the path for me.

Rest

Rest: When shall I be at rest? My eyes grow dim With straining through the gloom; I scarce can see The way-marks that my Saviour left for…

Resurrection

Resurrection: Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in spring-time.

Revenge

Revenge: Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His…

Revival

Revival: A genuine revival means a trimming of personal lamps.

Riches

Riches: Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Rights

Rights: Almost two thousand years ago there was One here on this earth who lived the grandest life that ever has been lived yet, a life…

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