Horace Bushnell Quotes

From my point of view, God is the light that illuminates the darkness, even if it does not dissolve it, and a spark of divine light is within each of us.

You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.

O never star Was lost; here We all aspire to heaven and there is heaven Above us. If I stoop Into a dark tremendous sea of cloud, It is but for a time; I press God's lamp Close to my breast; its splendor soon or late Will pierce the gloom. I shall emerge some day.

We cannot make the Kingdom of God happen, but we can put out leaves as it draws near. We can be kind to each other. We can be kind to ourselves. We can drive back the darkness a little. We can make green places within ourselves and among ourselves where God can make his Kingdom happen.

The soul can split the sky in two and let the face of God shine through.

I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair.

To lovers of the truth, nothing can be put before God and hope in Him.

As long as I have my faith in God, I'm good. I know everything else is going to come.

Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world.

We meditate on the transcendental glory of the Deity Supreme, who is inside the heart of the Earth, inside the life of the sky and inside the soul of the heaven. May He stimulate and illuminate our minds…. Peace, peace, peace be unto all.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

Light is but the shadow of God.

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, lead thou me on.

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.

Do not allow darkness and gloom to enter into your hearts. I want to give you a rule by which you may know that the spirit which you have is the right spirit. The Spirit of God produces cheerfulness, joy, light and good feelings. Whenever you feel gloomy and despondent and are downcast, unless it be for your sins, you may know it is not the Spirit of God which you have. Fight against it and drive it out of your heart. The Spirit of God is a spirit of hope; it is not a spirit of gloom.

Worship is forgetting about what's wrong with you and remembering what's right with God.

Oh Agnes, Oh my soul, so may thy face be by me when I close my life indeed; so may I, when realities are melting from me, like the shadows which I now dismiss, still find thee near me, pointing upward!

The cynics, they can only speak of the dark, of the obvious, and this is not hard. For all it’s supposed sophistication, it’s cynicism that’s simplistic. In a fallen world, how profound is to see the cracks? The sages and prophets, the disciples and revolutionaries, they are the ones up on the ramparts, up on the wall pointing to the dawn of the new Kingdom coming, pointing to the light that breaks through all things broken, pointing to redemption always rising and to the Blazing God who never sleeps.

I'd rather be in this wheelchair knowing God than on my feet without him.

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

At times, life is hard, as hard as crucible steel. It has its bleak and painful moments. Like the ever flowing water of a river, life has its moments of drought and its moments of flood. Like the ever-changin cycle of the seasons, life has the soothing warmth of the summers and the piercing chill of its winters. But through it all, God walks with us. Never forget that God is able to lift you from the fatigue of despair to the buoyancy of hope, and transform dark and desolate valleys into sunlit paths of inner peace.