Horace Bushnell: Living

Horace Bushnell was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on living.
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“Our communion with Christ is not on a level of our common humanity, but we rise in it; we scale the heavens where He sitteth at the right hand of God; we send our longings up and ask to have attachments knit to Him; to be set in deepest, holiest, and most practical affinity with Him; and so to live a life that is hid with Christ in God. In such a life, we become partakers of His holiness, and, in the separating grace of that, partakers also of His power.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 609.

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

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 124.

“The reason why those who are converted to Christ often make so poor a work of rectifying their old habits, is that they lay down their work in the very places where it needs to be prosecuted most carefully, that is, in their common employments. They do not live to God in that which is least.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 388.

“My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 39.

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 140.