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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.

Horace Bushnell

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Horace Bushnell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 14
Died: 1876
Died: February 17
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Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.
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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?
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