Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in…

— Horace Bushnell

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Horace Bushnell

It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Horace Bushnell

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

— Horace Bushnell

Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has…

— Horace Bushnell

O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in…

— 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

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

— 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

A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense…

— 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

God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything…

— Horace Bushnell

We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry…

— Horace Bushnell

Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as…

— Horace Bushnell