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Horace Bushnell was an American religious leader and theologian, born on April 14, 1802, and died on February 17, 1876. He had a profound impact on the fields of religion and theology, particularly in the areas of Christian ethics and religious education.

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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?”

Soul Done Order Evil Christ Sacrifice Broken Planes Glorious Proportion Work To Be Done

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.”

Men Want Christ Personal Love

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“Live as with God; and, whatever be your calling, pray for the gift that will perfectly qualify you in it.”

Praying Calling

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“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.”

World Doe Has Beens Character Beautiful Asks Christ Moral Dresses Conceiving

Author:Horace Bushnell

“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.”

Force Wonderful Abuse Stability Beaten Persecution Crushed

Book:Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God

Source: Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God

“A house without a roof would scarcely be a more different home, than a family unsheltered by God's friendship, and the sense of being always rested in His providential care and guidance.”

Different Home Care House Friendship Guidance Roof

Book:Christian Nurture

Source: Christian Nurture

“Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.”

Sorrow Guilt Nerves Guilt Free

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Trust in God for great things. With your five loaves and two fishes He will show you a way to feed thousands.”

Way Two Shows Five Fishes Great Things Trust In God

Book:Sermons for the new life

Source: Sermons for the new life

“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.”

Ifs Opportunity Loss Knowing Greater Trouble Burden Greater Things

Book:The New Life

Source: The New Life

“Somewhere under the stars God has a job for you to do and nobody else can do it.”

Jobs Stars Can Do Somewhere Under

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Nothing is necessary for you in maintaining a Christian life, but just to stay by the helm, and put yourself where the power is. Come unto God, unite yourself to God, and the doing power you have is infinite.”

Christian Infinite Christian Life Maintaining Helm

Author:Horace Bushnell

“Every man's life is a plan of God.”

Men Life Life Is Plans Every Man God Life Headstone

Book:The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation

Source: The Vicarious Sacrifice: Grounded in Principles of Universal Obligation

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Born: April 14, 1802
Died: February 17, 1876
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Quotes: 62

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