Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 82.
“To know Jesus Christ for ourselves is to make Him a consolation, delight, strength, righteousness, companion, and end.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 246.
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Charles Kingsley (1819–1875) English clergyman, historian and novelist
Source: Attributed, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 230.
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 362.
John Calvin (1509–1564) French Protestant reformer
Page 19.
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Maxim 995
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 92.
Harry Emerson Fosdick (1878–1969) American pastor
Statement co-authored with Joseph Fort Newton and Charles E. Jefferson, edited by Charles Steltzle, as quoted in The American Scrap Book (1928), p. 15; also in Yearbook of American & Canadian Churches (1930), p. 85
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James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Ichabod Spencer (1798–1854) American minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 284.