William Ellery Channing Quotes
Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that entrusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.
We must not waste life in devising means. It is better to plan less and do more.
Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.
Progress, the growth of power, is the end and boon of liberty; and, without this, a people may have the name, but want the substance and spirit of freedom.
The fewer the voices on the side of truth, the more distinct and strong must be your own.
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.
Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.
In general, we do well to let an opponent's motives alone. We are seldom just to them. Our own motives on such occasions are often worse than those we assail.
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
Other blessings may be taken away, but if we have acquired a good friend by goodness, we have a blessing which improves in value when others fail.
The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal
The hills are reared, the seas are scooped in vain If learning's altar vanish from the plain.
War will never yield but to the principles of universal justice and love, and these have no sure root but in the religion of Jesus Christ.
There is but a very minute portion of the creation which we can turn into food and clothes, or gratification for the body; but the whole creation may be used to minister to the sense of beauty.
Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene
My highway is unfeatured air, My consorts are the sleepless stars, And men my giant arms upbear My arms unstained and free from scars.
An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
Natural amiableness is too often seen in company with sloth, with uselessness, with the vanity of fashionable life.
A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.
Difficulties are meant to rouse not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It is a greater work to educate a child in the true and larger sense of the word than to rule a state.
An earnest purpose finds time or makes it. It seizes on spare moments and turns fragments to golden account.
All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly to act nobly he must think nobly.
Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.
What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.
