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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25 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Sabbath

9 quotations

Sacrament

3 quotations

Salvation

12 quotations

Sanctification

3 quotations

Science

8 quotations

Security

6 quotations

Self-Denial

18 quotations

Selfishness

21 quotations

Self-Righteousness

14 quotations

Self-Surrender

10 quotations

Simplicity

9 quotations

Sin

40 quotations

Sincerity

7 quotations

Song

3 quotations

Sorrow

17 quotations

Soul

14 quotations

Speaking for Christ

6 quotations

Spirituality

3 quotations

Spiritual Perception

4 quotations

Spiritual Progress

15 quotations

Success

1 quotation

Suffering

10 quotations

Sunday-School

12 quotations

Superstition

5 quotations

Sympathy

5 quotations

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