Action Quote by 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

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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 from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for…

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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 no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect,…

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

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Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make…

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