A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by Geo. B. Cheever

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

Faith in to-morrow instead of Christ, is Satan's nurse for man's perdition.— filed under Procrastination
A man as he goes down in self, goes up in God. It is interesting to trace this in the experience of the apostle Paul, as gathered from his Epistles. In the year of our Lord 59, he is the least of the apostles, and not fit to be called an apostle, because he persecuted the church of God. In the year of our Lord 64, after four years more of growth in grace, he is "less than the least of all saints." But in the year of our Lord 65, and not long before he was about to receive his crown in heaven, he is "the chief of sinners."— filed under Selfishness
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