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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10 subjects in this part of Burning Words.

Waiting

Waiting: They also serve who only stand and wait. Let me rejoice in the light which Thou hast imparted; let me serve Thee with active zeal…

War

War: The fruits of the gospel are love, forbearance, meekness, purity, joy; those of war are hatred, vengeance, lust, carnage, and misery…

Weariness

Weariness: Jesus, give the weary Calm and sweet repose. With Thy tend'rest blessing May our eyelids close.

Will

Will: We lay it down as a first principle - from which we can no more depart than from the consciousness of existence - that man is free…

Wisdom

Wisdom: Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer.

Woman

Woman: Women of America! You can give and serve and pray. You can give self-denyingly. You can serve lovingly. You can pray conqueringly…

Works

Works: Although good works, which are the fruits of faith, and follow after justification, cannot put away our sins, and endure the…

World

World: And what is this world in the immensity that teems with them? And what are they who occupy it? The universe at large would suffer as…

Worldliness

Worldliness: Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.

Worth

Worth: I had as lief preach humanity to a battle of eagles, as to urge honesty and integrity upon those who have determined to be rich, and…

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