A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Elizabeth Rowe

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

I expect eternal life, not as a reward of merit, but a pure act of bounty. Detesting myself in every view I can take, I fly to the righteousness and atonement of my great Redeemer for pardon and salvation; this is my only consolation and hope. "Enter not into judgment, O Lord, with Thy servant; for in Thy sight shall no flesh be justified."— filed under Faith In Christ
As the Creator and Preserver of men, Thou art gloriously manifest; but O! how much more gloriously art Thou revealed as reconciling ungrateful enemies to Thyself by the blood of Thy eternal Son. Here Thy beneficence displays its brightest splendor; here Thou dost fully display Thy most magnificent titles; THE LORD, The Lord GOD, merciful and gracious, longsuffering and abundant in goodness. How unsearchable are Thy ways, and Thy paths past finding out!— filed under God's Love
Blessed God, pity the soul whose extremest horror is the doom of an eternal departure from Thee. Draw my spirit into the holiest and the nearest union with Thyself that is possible while it dwells in this flesh And let me here commence that commence that delightful residence and converse with God, which nor death, nor judgment shall ever destroy, nor shall a long eternity ever eternity ever put a period to it.— filed under Nearness To God And Christ
Great minds, like heaven, are pleased in doing good.— filed under Beneficence
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