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Horace Bushnell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 14
Died: 1876
Died: February 17
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The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be.
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Live as with God and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.
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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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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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Education is only second to nature.
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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.
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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.
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It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.
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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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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.
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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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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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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
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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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Every man's life is a plan of God.
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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.
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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.
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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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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
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