Horace Bushnell Men Quotations

It is the grand endeavor of the gospel to communicate God to men.

A true Christian man is distinguished from other men, not so much by his beneficent works, as by his patience.

Every man's life is a plan of God.

It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.

Christ wants to lead men by their love, their personal love to Him, and the confidence of His personal love to them.

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.

Feeble are we? Yes, without God we are nothing. But what, by faith, every man may be, God requires him to be. This is the only Christian idea of duty. Measure obligation by inherent ability! No, my brethren, Christian obligation has a very different measure. It is measured by the power that God will give us, measured by the gifts and possible increments of faith. And what a reckoning will it be for many of us, when Christ summons us to answer before Him under the law, not for what we are, but for what we might have been.

Go to your duty, every man, and trust yourself to Christ; for He will give you all supply just as fast as you need it. You will have just as much power as you believe you can have. Be a Christian; throw yourself upon God's work; and get the ability you want in it.

Forgiveness is man's deepest need and highest achievement.