Horace Bushnell Quotes

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves

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

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

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

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.

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

Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.

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.

Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.

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

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

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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

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.

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

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.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

Education is only second to nature.

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

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.

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

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.

O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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.

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

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

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.