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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Quotes by George F. Pentecost

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

The old fable tells us of a boy who mounted a scavenger's cart with base intent to throw dirt at the moon; whereat another boy, with better intentions, but scarcely less folly, came running with a basin of water to wash the moon, and make its face clean again. Certain skeptics are forever inventing new infidelities with which they endeavor to defile the fair face of the gospel, and many ministers forsake the preaching of Christ and Him crucified, to answer their endless quibbles; to both of these the ancient fable may be instructive. If the truth were known, many sermons are prepared and preached with more regard for the sermon than the souls of the hearers.— filed under Preaching
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