Horace Bushnell Quotes About Jesus

• We are to work after no set fashion of high endeavor; but to walk with Jesus, performing, as it were, a ministry on foot, that we may stop at the humblest matter, and prove our fidelity there.

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  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 388, 1895.

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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.

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  Miracle  

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

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• Jesus is the true manifestation of God, and He is manifested to be the regenerating power of a divine life.

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  Horace Bushnell (1858). “Sermons for the new life”, p.124

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• Jesus does not drive His followers on before, as a herd of unwilling disciples, but goes before Himself, leading them into paths that He has trod, and dangers He has met, and sacrifices He has borne Himself, calling them after Him and to be only followers.

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  Horace Bushnell (1866). “The new life”, p.78

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