A Dictionary of Burning Words

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Quotes by J. W. Alexander

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

The life-boat may have a tasteful bend and beautiful decoration, but these are not the qualities for which I prize it; it was my salvation from the howling sea! So the interest which a regenerate soul takes in the Bible, is founded on a personal application to the heart of the saving truth which it contains.— filed under Bible
There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there is no God of mercy.— filed under God's Omnipotence
Virtue consists in doing our duty in the several relations we sustain in respect to ourselves, to our fellow men, and to God, as known from reason, conscience, and revelation.— filed under Virtue
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