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Horace Bushnell Quotes

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow Picture Quote #1

Education is only second to nature Picture Quote #1

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Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement Picture Quote #1

Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin Picture Quote #1

The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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? Picture Quote #1

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience Picture Quote #1

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However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud Picture Quote #1

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! Picture Quote #1

If we must have heroes and wars wherein to make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with wrong; no hero so fit to be sung as he who has gained the bloodless victory of truth and mercy Picture Quote #1

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions Picture Quote #1

Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character Picture Quote #1

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To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow (Horace Bushnell Quotes) Education is only second to nature (Horace Bushnell Quotes) Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement (Horace Bushnell Quotes) Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin (Horace Bushnell Quotes) The more difficulties one has to encounter, within and without, the more significant and the higher in inspiration his life will be (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience (Horace Bushnell Quotes) However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) If we must have heroes and wars wherein to make them, there is no war so brilliant as a war with wrong; no hero so fit to be sung as he who has gained the bloodless victory of truth and mercy (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves (Horace Bushnell Quotes) 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 Quotes) 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 Quotes) Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character (Horace Bushnell Quotes)