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. Horace Bushnell More Quotes by Horace Bushnell More Quotes From Horace Bushnell The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession. Horace Bushnell gunpowdercitiesage Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions. Horace Bushnell delicacydancingfeelings In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law. Horace Bushnell degreeslaworder 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 takennamesheart 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? Horace Bushnell sacrificeevilorder 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. Horace Bushnell dressesbeautifulcharacter 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. Horace Bushnell abuseforcewonderful 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. Horace Bushnell househomefriendship Every man's life is a plan of God. Horace Bushnell headstonemenlife To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher. Horace Bushnell philosopherphilosophy Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones. Horace Bushnell perfectmindcharacter 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 passionblessedhands Christianity is no mere scheme of doctrine or of ethical practice, but is instead a kind of miracle, a power out of nature and above, descending into it; a historically supernatural movement on the world, that is visibly entered into it, and organized to be an institution in the person of Jesus Christ. Horace Bushnell miraclepracticejesus 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! Horace Bushnell hourstearssoul Faith is the act of trust by which one being, a sinner, commits himself to another being, a Saviour. Horace Bushnell savioursinnercommit 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 qualitysinappearance Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life. Horace Bushnell divinejesuschrist As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature. Horace Bushnell our-actionsbrokenlong It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable. Horace Bushnell excellencelovereligion 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. Horace Bushnell christ-consciousnesstrustkind
