"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but……" — Horace Bushnell
"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin."
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22 Quotes by Horace Bushnell
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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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When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of…
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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…
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Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love…
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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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Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how…
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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is…
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A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and…
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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…
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Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that…
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Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.
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