Top 25 Quotes by Horace Bushnell of 62 - Page 3

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of

Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holy principle in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin.

Horace Bushnell

Taken, Heart, Names

Fashionable dances as now carried on are revolting to every feeling of delicacy and propriety and are fraught with the greatest danger to millions.

Horace Bushnell

Dancing, Feelings, Delicacy

To understand a philosopher requires a philosopher.

Horace Bushnell

Philosophy, Philosopher

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

Jesus, Practice, Miracle

Horace Bushnell (2001). “The Character of Jesus”, p.7, Wipf and Stock Publishers

True conviction of sin--how difficult it is, when its appearances and modes of life are so fair, when it twines itself so cunningly about, or creeps so insidiously into, our amiable qualities, and sets off its internal disorders by so many outward charms and attractions.

Horace Bushnell

Quality, Sin, Appearance

Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.233

In the sacred fact of obligation you touch the immutable, and lay hold, as it were, on the eternities. At the very center of your being, there is a fixed element, and that of a kind or degree essentially sovereign. A standard is set up in your very thought, by which a great part of your questions are determined, and about which your otherwise random thoughts may settle into order and law.

Horace Bushnell

Order, Law, Degrees

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.

Horace Bushnell

Abuse, Wonderful, Force

Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.427

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

Blessed, Passion, Hands

The peoples of the old world have their cities built for times gone by, when railroads and gunpowder were unknown. We can have cities for the new age that has come, adopted to its better conditions of use and ornament. We want, therefore, a city planning profession.

Horace Bushnell

Cities, Age, Gunpowder

Great occasions rally great principles, and brace the mind to a lofty bearing, a bearing that is even above itself. But trials that make no occasion at all, leave it to show the goodness and beauty it has in its own disposition. And here precisely is the superhuman glory of Christ as a character, that He is just as perfect, exhibits just as great a spirit in little trials as in great ones.

Horace Bushnell

Character, Perfect, Mind

Horace Bushnell (1858). “Nature and the Supernatural: As Together Constituting the One System of God”, p.294

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.

Horace Bushnell

Pestilence, Taste, Principles

Horace BUSHNELL (1849). “Unconscious Influence; a sermon, etc”, p.14