Religion Quotes by Horace Bushnell

9 Religion quotes by Horace Bushnell

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Horace Bushnell’s nine short statements on religion reveal a nuanced theological perspective. The compact set lets his subtle ideas shine through.

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

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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…

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

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

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

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

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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…

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

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

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To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

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

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

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Christ's sacrifice stands in glorious proportions with the work to be done. Nothing else or less would suffice. It is a work supernatural, transacted…

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

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Every man's life is a plan of God.

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

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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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

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Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make…

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

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

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In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of…

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

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