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.

Talents

Talents: The way to attain to larger gifts is to employ the gifts you have. Give Jesus the one talent, and then He may trust you with two…

Temperance

Temperance: "Take therefore the talent from him." It is being taken away rapidly, and the shreds of it will very soon be all that is left…

Temptation

Temptation: God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers. On this earth all is temptation. Crosses…

Tenderness

Tenderness: There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate.

Thankfulness

Thankfulness: Speak the truth, by all means! Speak it so that no man can mistake the utterance. Be bold and fearless in your rebuke of…

Theology

Theology: Of all qualities which a theologian must possess, a devotional spirit is the chief. For the soul is larger than the mind, and the…

Thought

Thought: If you are not a thinking man, to what purpose are you a man at all?

Time

Time: Time wasted is existence, used is life.

Trials

Trials: Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears.

Trust In Christ

Trust In Christ: Exercise your God-given power of trust. Look up! Salvation is provided, and nothing remains to be done. Take hold! Take…

Trust In God

Trust In God: I believe in God, and I trust myself in His hands.

Truth

Truth: One of the sublimest things in this world is plain truth. Truth is power.

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