Horace Bushnell Short Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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 we recover the lost faith.

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O, if we could tear aside the vail, and see for but one hour what it signifies to be a soul in the power of an endless life, what a revelation would it be!

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God listens for nothing so tenderly, as when His children help each other by their testimonies to His goodness and the way in which He has brought them deliverance.

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Take your burdens, and troubles, and losses, and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunities, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

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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 the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.

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We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

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Persecution has not crushed it, power has not beaten it back, time has not abated its force, and, what is most wonderful of all, the abuses and treasons of its friends have not shaken its stability.

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