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3 quotations from Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), with the subject each one is filed under.

The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God, when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, "Abba, Father."— filed under Assurance

To please ourselves with a notion of gospel liberty, while we have not a gospel principle of holiness within to free us from the power of sin, is nothing else but to gild over our bonds and fetters, and to fancy ourselves the inmates of a golden cage. There is a straitness, slavery, and narrowness in sin; sin crowds and crumples up our souls which, if they were freely spread abroad, would be as wide and as broad as the whole universe. No man is truly free, but he that has his will enlarged to the extent of God's own will, by loving whatever God loves, and nothing else. Sin is a state of mind, not an outward act. Sin, without strong restraints, would pull God from His throne, make the world the minion of its lusts, and all beings bow down and worship.— filed under Sin

The golden beams of truth and the silken cords of love, twisted together, will draw men on with a sweet violence whether they will or not.— filed under Truth