Horace Bushnell Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.

  Horace Bushnell

  Blessed, Passion, Hands

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Taken, Heart, Names

• 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

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

  Horace Bushnell

  Promise, Sin, Remedy

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.249

• Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.

  Horace Bushnell

  Taken, Names, Morality

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

• True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

  Horace Bushnell

  Quality, Sin, Appearance

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

• 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

• 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.

  Horace Bushnell

  Lying, World, Facts

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

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