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“To be like Christ in His love is far more than to be like Him in His knowlege, if we were forced to choose between them; but they harmonize and strengthen each other; more knowledge will help us to love more; and more love help us to know more.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 396.

“With Christ, and like Christ, and not love our friends! Impossible! when He loves them so tenderly. Going into the fuller presence of Him whose very name is "Love" can never make our hearts less loving.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 305.

“I believe that into the weakest, saddest heart that opens to receive this Divine Guest, the Father and the Son will come and abide; and the exalted joy that abiding brings, what words can express! The Divine dwelling in the human, the Infinite in the finite, how marvelous! how glorious! This must be the real foretaste of heavenly joy — the truest heaven we can know on earth.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 278.

“God is all love, and the more we are like Him the more we shall love; the trouble is not in the quantity but the quality of our love. If it were wholly pure, wholly unselfish, it could not be too deep or intense; for all true loving lifts us to a higher plane, bringing us nearer to God and the eternal goodness.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 395.

“It is not so bad a thing to grow old; it is only getting a little nearer home; a little nearer to immortal youth.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 439.

“Perhaps heaven may not be so far away as we fancy; and if our eyes were not holden, we should see angels ascending and descending, and blessed spirits thronging all about us.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 304.

“It is the best thing for a stricken heart to be helping others.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 10.

“There have been keen agonies, sore heart-aches, but they have been short, and a sweet peace abides. Can it be His peace? Is it possible that to such a weak, sinful creature as I, the Comforter has indeed come? I must believe this, and that it is His presence that cheers me.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 446.

Arthur Kenney Quotes about Christ

“A genuine faith lifts us above the bitterness of grief; a sense of Christ's living presence takes away all unbearable loneliness even when we are most alone. In our darkest hours, to know that our lost friend is still living, still loving us, still ours, in the highest and best sense, must be unspeakably consoling.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 27.

“The holier one is, the more forbearing and loving he is; the more tender and patient and anxious to help others in every way. Think how forbearing and loving Christ is when we do wrong; and there we are to be like Him.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 444.

“I really believe if, instead of shutting ourselves into our sorrows and keeping all the light of heaven out of our souls, we opened them to receive Him, Christ would so come to us that the season of our deepest grief and anguish would become one of the richest and most precious of our whole lives.”

Arthur Kenney

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 557.

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