Explore Quotes by Horace Bushnell

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

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.

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

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.

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