Horace Bushnell Quotes

It is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true christian, and not humble.

Every Christian man has a choice between being humble and being humbled.

Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.

Patience is a godly attribute that can heal souls, unlock treasures of knowledge and understanding, and transform ordinary men and women into saints and angels. Patience is truly a fruit of the Spirit. Patience means staying with something until the end. It means delaying immediate gratification for future blessings.

A Christian is the gentlest of men; but then he is a man.

Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

Patience is moral elasticity.

The true expression of Christian character is not in good-doing but in God-likeness.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

There is no well-doing, no Godlike doing, that is not patient doing.

I consider myself a non-denominational Christian. I grew up in a Bible church and still hold those beliefs very close to me.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

All men commend patience, although few are willing to practice it.

I have to say that the most important thing Scientology has given me is the ability to keep my integrity together.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

I'm still very much a Christian and have a great relationship with God. I love Him, but one of my flaws is that I cuss.

For he that is a good man, is three quarters of his way towards the being a good Christian, wheresoever he lives, or whatsoever he is called.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

Avoiding the temptation to sin and being patient upon that, is greater than being patient whilst being afflicted with trials.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

Patience is more than a virtue for long lines and slow waiters. Patience is the red carpet upon which God's grace approaches us.

A tree may always be known by its fruit, and a true Christian may always be discovered by their habits, tastes & affections.

What comes to a person in his or her life, however difficult it may be, perhaps will help a person move closer to God. The response to tribulation is abr, which is patience, perseverance, steadfastness, and resolve. Allāh loves the patient; part of the reason the tribulation comes is to draw the quality of patience out of them - He loves this quality.

Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world.