Horace Bushnell (April 14, 1802 - February 17, 1876) was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian
"Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negativespecies of virtue which consists in not doing what is scandalously depraved and wicked. But there is no heart of holyprinciple in it, any more than there is in the grosser sin."
