Horace Bushnell Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• Christ commands you to take up His cross and follow Him, not that He may humble you, or lay some penance upon you, but that you may surrender the low self-will and the feeble pride of your sin, and ascend into the sublime patience of heavenly charity.

  Horace Bushnell

  Patience, Humble, Pride

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.414

• Christ does not dress up a moral picture, and ask you to observe its beauty. He only tells you how to live; and the most beautiful characters the world has ever seen, have been those who received and lived these precepts without once conceiving their beauty.

  Horace Bushnell

  Beautiful, Character, Dresses

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 140, 1895.

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Men, Law

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

• 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, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

  Horace Bushnell

  Character, Perfect, Mind

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Christian, Believe, Men

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

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

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Christ, Divine

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.124

• It is the grandeur of Christ's character which constitutes the chief power of His ministry, not His miracles or teachings apart from His character. The greatest triumph of the Gospel is Christ Himself--a human body become the organ of the Divine nature, and revealing, under the conditions of an earthly life, the glory of God.

  Horace Bushnell

  Teaching, Character, Miracle

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Beautiful, Names, Drawing

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Spring, Son, Law

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

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Sacrifice, Doe

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

• We come, in our trust, unto God, and the moment we so embrace Him, by committing our total being and eternity to Him, we find every thing is transformed. There is life in us from God; a kind of Christ-consciousness is opened in us, testifying with the apostle,--Christ liveth in me.

  Horace Bushnell

  Trust, Christ Consciousness, Kind

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The New Life”, p.55

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Inspiration, Secret, Want

• 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 in the plane of nature; and what but such a work could restore the broken order of the soul under evil?

  Horace Bushnell

  Sacrifice, Order, Evil

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 70), 1895.

• Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ.

  Horace Bushnell

  Jesus, Practice, Miracle

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

  Horace Bushnell

  Men, Want, Christ

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.81

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

  Horace Bushnell

  Long, Broken, Our Actions

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.269

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