Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character. Horace Bushnell More Quotes by Horace Bushnell More Quotes From Horace Bushnell The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be. Horace Bushnell positive-thinking motivational inspirational Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands. Horace Bushnell trust-in-god two way My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths. Horace Bushnell fire bible discovery 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. Horace Bushnell self-confidence humble mean Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement. Horace Bushnell forgiveness men needs The resurrection morning is a true sun-rising, the inbursting of a cloudless sky on all the righteous dead. They wake transfigured, at their Maker's call, with the fashion of their countenance altered and shining like His own. Horace Bushnell fashion sky morning Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it. Horace Bushnell somewhere-under stars jobs 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. Horace Bushnell helping children way Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it. Horace Bushnell praying calling However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud. Horace Bushnell hope dark clouds Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves Horace Bushnell soul blood moving 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 sacrifice doe jesus 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 Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow. Horace Bushnell nerves guilt sorrow 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 drawing names beautiful It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men. Horace Bushnell endeavor communicate men A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience. Horace Bushnell christian patience men Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand. Horace Bushnell god mean hands Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these. Horace Bushnell strong loss opportunity 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 law men
