“If you could once get away, my friends, from that sense of mediocrity and nothingness to which you are shut up, under the stupor of your self-seeking and your sin, how easy would it be for you to believe! Nay, if but some faintest suspicion could steal into you of what your soul is, and the tremendous evils working in it, nothing but the mystery of Christ's death and passion would be sufficient for you.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 235.
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Horace Bushnell 32
American theologian 1802–1876Related quotes

“Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again.”
Confessions Of A Sceptic
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)
Context: Fling away your soul once for all, your own small self; if you will find it again. Count not even on immortality.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 153.