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It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

Horace Bushnell

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Horace Bushnell
Age: 73 †
Born: 1802
Born: April 14
Died: 1876
Died: February 17
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Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.
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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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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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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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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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Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
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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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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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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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A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.
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Every man's life is a plan of God.
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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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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 only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
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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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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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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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