Horace Bushnell Quotes

Wisdom is always connected to beauty. When you see someone acting by their principles, their wisdom makes them beautiful.

Even a little of dharma saves one from many a pitfall.

If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

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

Christianity is not so much the advent of a better doctrine as of a perfect character.

What really pleases the Spiritual Master is our intent and the quality of our character.

It is not enough merely possess virtue, as if it were an art; it should be practiced.

The Bible stands alone in human literature in its elevated conception of manhood, in character and conduct.

A man cannot have character unless he lives within a fundamental system of morals that creates character.

The man of character, sensitive to the meaning of what he is doing, will know how to discover the ethical paths in the maze of possible behavior.

In Spiritual formation we are aiming at a character and life that is so shaped that the deeds of Christ routinely and easily come from what is inside.

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.

We often pray for purity, unselfishness, for the highest qualities of character, and forget that these things cannot be given, but must be earned.

We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.

If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount.

To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character.

There never has been a great and beautiful character, which has not become so by filling well the ordinary and smaller offices appointed of God.

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

A woman may be beautiful but have poor character. A man may be a business genius, making money left and right, but lack common courtesy, sensitivity, and compassion.

Virtue is only a conflict by which we get the mastery of our failings; that, by which every man proves his peculiar power of understanding the will and spirit of God, is only a silent working of the inner man.

The great end of all religionis to purify our hearts--and conquer our passions--and in a word, to make us wiser and better men--better neighbours--better citizens--and better servants of GOD.