Horace Bushnell Quotes

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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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  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive Thinking

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.259

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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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  Jobs, Stars, Somewhere Under

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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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  Two, Way, Trust In God

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.381

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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 the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

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  Bible, Fire, Discovery

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• Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

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  Forgiveness, Men, Needs

  Horace Bushnell, Henry Barrett Learned (1910). “Spirit in Man: Sermons and Selections”

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• Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.

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  Strong, Loss, Opportunity

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.28

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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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  Moving, Blood, Soul

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• By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.

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  Humble, Mean, Self Confidence

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.432

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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 that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.

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  Jesus, Sacrifice, Doe

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.78

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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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  Calling, Praying

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.49

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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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  Children, Way, Helping

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 106, 1895.

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

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  Hope, Dark, Clouds

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.95

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• The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own.

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  Fashion, Morning, Sky

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 519, 1895.

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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. Claim your glorious privilege in the name of a disciple; be no more a servant, when Christ will own you as a friend.

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  Beautiful, Names, Drawing

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• It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

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  Patience, Simple, Men

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

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• Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.

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  Christian, Maintaining, Infinite

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• Christ is known only by them that receive Him into their love, their faith, their deep want; known only as He is enshrined within, felt as a Divine force, breathed in the inspirations of the secret life.

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  Inspiration, Secret, Want

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• Every man's life is a plan of God.

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  Life, Men, Headstone

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation”, p.2

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• Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

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  Christian, Men, Law

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”

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• Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand.

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  God, Mean, Hands

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.22

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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 of a new spirit of life, He is nothing. "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God," as many, no more.

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  Spring, Son, Law

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.344

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• Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it.

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  Christian, Believe, Men

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.380

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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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  Loss, Opportunity, Knowing

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.15

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• God made sin possible just as he made all lying wonders possible, but he never made it a fact, never set anything in his plan to harmonize with it. Therefore it enters the world as a forbidden fact against everything that God has ordained.

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  Lying, World, Facts

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.346

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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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  Christian, Patience, Men

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.282

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