Horace Bushnell
Horace Bushnell
Horace Bushnellwas an American Congregational minister and theologian...
god mean hands
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.
trust christ-consciousness kind
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.
dancing feelings delicacy
Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.
world body pestilence
If you had the seeds of pestilence in your body you would not have a more active contagion that you have in your tempers, tastes, and principles. Simply to be in this world, whatever you are, is to exert an influence, compared with which mere language and persuasion are feeble.
mean humble self-confidence
By His trials, God means to purify us, to take away all our self-confidence, and our trust in each other, and bring us into implicit, humble trust in Himself.
men power wind
Not all the winds, and storms, and earthquakes, and seas, and seasons of the world, have done so much to revolutionize the earth as Man, the power of an endless life, has done since the day he came forth upon it, and received dominion over it.
self redemption dry
O, if there be any kind of life most sad, and deepest in the scale of pity, it is the dry, cold impotence of one, who has honestly set to the work of his own self-redemption.
fashion morning sky
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.
taken names morality
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency of sin.
beautiful character office
There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.
promise sin remedy
Nature has no promise for society, least of all, any remedy for sin.
fashion jesus feet
We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.
broken long our-actions
As long as we abide in Christ, our action is from Him, not from our own corrupt and broken nature.
jesus christ divine
Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.