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Horace Bushnell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 14
Died: 1876
Died: February 17
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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.
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Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.
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Education is only second to nature.
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Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
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It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.
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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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Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.
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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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However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud.
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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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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
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Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.
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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.
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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.
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