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Horace Bushnell Quotes
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Famous Horace Bushnell Quotations
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Horace Bushnell (April 14, 1802 - February 17, 1876) was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian
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- 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.
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- It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple patience.
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- It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.
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- 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.
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