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• 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.

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  Teaching, Character, Miracle

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• Education is only second to nature.

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  Nature, Science, Natural

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “Nature and the Supernatural”, p.53, Applewood Books

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

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  Promise, Sin, Remedy

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

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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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  Jesus, Christ, Divine

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

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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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  Energy, Firsts, Lost

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 237, 1895.

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• Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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  Sorrow, Guilt, Nerves

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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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  Beautiful, Character, Office

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.199

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

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  Character, Perfect, Doctrine

  Horace BUSHNELL (1859). “Nature and the Supernatural, as together constituting the one system of God ... Fourth edition”, p.331

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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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  Soul, Tears, Hours

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.214

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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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  Men, Want, Christ

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

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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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  Friendship, Home, House

  Horace Bushnell (1861). “Christian Nurture”, p.398

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• It doth not yet appear what we shall be. We lie here in our nest, unfledged and weak, guessing dimly at our future, and scarce believing what even now appears. But the power is in us, and that power is finally to be revealed. And what a revelation will that be!

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  Lying, Believe, Heaven

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.222

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• 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.

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  Patience, Humble, Pride

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

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• 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.

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  Beautiful, Character, Dresses

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

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• 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.

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  Trust, Christ Consciousness, Kind

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

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• However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.

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  God, Dark, Clouds

  Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.156

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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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  Long, Broken, Our Actions

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

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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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  Commit, Saviour, Sinner

  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.49

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

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  Men, Endeavor, Communicate

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.76

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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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  Fashion, Jesus, Feet

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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• When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.

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  Lonely, Plato, New Beginnings

  Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.60, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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

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  Taken, Names, Morality

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

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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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  Abuse, Wonderful, Force

  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.427

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• It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

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  Love, Excellence, Religion

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• Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.

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  Men, Power, Wind

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