My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull.… - Horace Bushnell

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My own experience is that the Bible is dull when I am dull. When I am really alive, and set in upon the text with a tidal pressure of living affinities, it opens, it multiplies discoveries, and reveals depths even faster than I can note them. The worldly spirit shuts the Bible; the Spirit of God makes it a fire, flaming out all meanings and glorious truths.

Horace Bushnell

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Horace Bushnell (14 April 1802 – 17 February 1876) was an American Congregational clergyman and theologian.

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