Horace Bushnell Quotes

As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.

Horace Bushnell

Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

Horace Bushnell

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

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Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

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Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

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Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.

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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow

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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow

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Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.

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We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

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We shall never recover the true apostolic energy, and be endued with power from on high, as the first disciples were, 'till we recover the lost faith.

Horace Bushnell

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

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God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

Horace Bushnell

Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

Horace Bushnell
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