Horace Bushnell: Quotes about the world

Horace Bushnell was American theologian. Explore interesting quotes on world.
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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.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 133.

World , Nature , Christ , Personality

“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

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 86.

Love , God , World , Suffering

“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.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.

God , World , Way , Study

“However dark our lot may be, there is light enough on the other side of the cloud, in that pure empyrean where God dwells, to irradiate every darkness of this world; light enough to clear every difficult question, remove every ground of obscurity, conquer every atheistic suspicion, silence every hard judgment, light enough to satisfy, nay, to ravish the mind forever.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 275.

God , World , Question , Light

“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this? — a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.”

Horace Bushnell

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 56.

Life , Youth , Age , World

“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.

World , Beauty , Christ

“When has the world seen a phenomenon like this?”

Horace Bushnell

a lonely uninstructed youth, coming from amid the moral darkness of Galilee, even more distinct from His age, and from every thing around Him, than a Plato would be rising up in some wild tribe in Oregon, assuming thus a position at the head of the world and maintaining it, for eighteen centuries, by the pure self-evidence of His life and doctrine.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 56.

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