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

Grace will ever speak for itself and be fruitful in well-doing; the sanctified cross is a fruitful tree.— filed under Affliction

Let your children be as so many flowers, borrowed from God. them. If the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of the flowers die or wither, thank God for a summer loan of them.— filed under Children

Ye have lost a child - nay, she is not lost to you, who is found to Christ; she is not sent away, but only sent before; like unto a star, which going out of our sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere.— filed under Children

Dearest wife, let us go on and faint not; something of ours is in heaven besides the flesh of our exalted Saviour, and we go on after our own.— filed under Children

My desire is that my Lord would give me broader and deeper thoughts, to feed myself with wondering at His love.— filed under Christ's Love

In our fluctuations of feeling, it is well to remember that Jesus admits no change in His affections; your heart is not the compass Jesus saileth by.— filed under Christ's Love

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.— filed under Christ's Fullness

When the storms of trial lower, When I feel temptation's power, In the last and darkest hour, Jesus, Saviour, be Thou nigh. I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in the precise way that I lay wait for Him. He hath a manner of His own. Oh, how high are His ways above my ways!— filed under Christ's Presence

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.— filed under Christ the Burden Bearer

There is nothing that will make you a Christian indeed, but a taste of the sweetness of Christ.— filed under Christians

Christ, in that place He hath put you, hath intrusted you with a dear pledge, which is His own glory, and hath armed you with His sword to keep the pledge, and make a good account of it to God.— filed under Christians

Christ seeketh your help in your place; give Him your hand.— filed under Christian Service

You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.— filed under Coming To Christ

My dear friend, venture to take the wind on your face for Christ.— filed under Courage

Welcome, welcome, cross of Christ, if Christ be with it.— filed under Cross Bearing

How soon would faith freeze without a cross!— filed under Cross Bearing

Build your nest upon no tree here, for ye see that God hath sold the forest to death.— filed under Earth

Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.— filed under Fortitude

When ye are come to the other side of the water, and have set down your foot on the shore of glorious eternity, and look back again to the waters and to your wearisome journey, and shall see in that clear glass of endless glory, nearer to the bottom of God's wisdom, ye shall then be forced to say, "If God had done otherwise with me than He hath done, I had never come to the enjoyment of this crown of glory."— filed under God's Guidance

It is no small comfort that God hath written some Scriptures to you which He hath not to others. Read these, and think God is like a friend who sendeth a letter to a whole house and family, but who speaketh in His letter to some by name that are dearest to Him in the house. --— filed under God's Love

- There is nothing left to us but to see how we may be approved of Him, and how we may roll the weight of our weak souls in well-doing upon Him, who is God omnipotent.— filed under God's Omnipotence

It is certain that this is not only good which the Almighty has done, but that it is best; He hath reckoned all your steps to heaven.— filed under God's Omniscience

I know that as night and shadows are good for flowers, and moonlight and dews are better than a continual sun, so is Christ's absence of special use, and that it hath some nourishing virtue in it, and giveth sap to humility, and putteth an edge on hunger, and furnisheth a fair field for faith to put forth itself.— filed under God's Presence

Grow as a palm-tree on God's Mount Zion; howbeit shaken with winds, yet the root is fast.— filed under Growth In Grace

Christ and His cross are not separable in this life, howbeit Christ and His cross part at heaven's door, for there is no house-room for crosses in heaven. One tear, one sigh, one sad heart, one fear, one loss, one thought of trouble cannot find lodging there.— filed under Heaven

Oh, when shall the night be gone, the shadows flee away, and the morning of that long, long day, without cloud or night, dawn? Rejoice, oh! grieving heart, The hours fly past; With each some sorrow dies, With each some shadow flies, Until at last The red dawn in the east Bids weary night depart, And pain is past.— filed under Heaven

The only cure for indolence is work; the only cure for selfishness is sacrifice; the only cure for unbelief is to shake off the ague of doubt, by doing Christ's bidding; the only cure for timidity is to plunge into some dreaded duty before the chill comes on.— filed under Indolence

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.— filed under Miracles

Help us, O Lord! with patient love to bear Each other's faults, to suffer with true meekness: Help us each other's joys and griefs to share, But let us turn to Thee alone in weakness. Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.— filed under Patience

I pray God that I may never find my will again. Oh, that Christ would subject my will to His, and trample it under His feet.— filed under Resignation

Go where ye will, your soul shall not sleep sound but in Christ's bosom.— filed under Rest

Can we doubt that God acts immediately in the soul? that He so acts as to make it die to self? that, after having subdued the grosser passions, He attacks all the subtle resources of self-love within, especially in those souls who have without reserve delivered themselves up to the operations of His grace? It is in some respect greater love in Jesus to sanctify than to justify, for He maketh us most like Himself, in His own essential portraiture and image in sanctifying us.— filed under Sanctification

If ye never had a sick night and a pained soul for sin, ye have not yet lighted upon Christ. Let good or ill befall,— filed under Trust In Christ

Make not Christ a liar in distrusting His promise.— filed under Trust In Christ

Set not your heart upon the world, since God hath not made it your portion.— filed under Worldliness