Horace Bushnell

Every man's life is a plan of God.

— Horace Bushnell

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

— Horace Bushnell

Education is only second to nature.

— Horace Bushnell

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

— Horace Bushnell

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

— Horace Bushnell

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

— Horace Bushnell

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

— Horace Bushnell

Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour.

— Horace Bushnell

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud...

— Horace Bushnell

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet…

— Horace Bushnell

Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the…

— Horace Bushnell

It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our…

— Horace Bushnell

Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths…

— Horace Bushnell

Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live;…

— Horace Bushnell

Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful…

— Horace Bushnell

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can…

— Horace Bushnell

Be sure that Christ is not behind you, but before, calling and drawing you on. This is the liberty, the beautiful liberty…

— Horace Bushnell

However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where…

— Horace Bushnell

When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even…

— Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue…

— Horace Bushnell

My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon…

— Horace Bushnell

Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact…

— Horace Bushnell

Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be.…

— Horace Bushnell

Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of…

— Horace Bushnell

We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to…

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

— Horace Bushnell

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

— Horace Bushnell

God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way…

— Horace Bushnell

Christ is redemption only as He actually redeems and delivers our nature from sin. If He is not the law and spring…

— Horace Bushnell