Religion Quotes by William Ellery Channing

8 Religion quotes by William Ellery Channing

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William Ellery Channing’s short thoughts on spirituality are eloquent and rational, each line a measured argument. Eight brief quotes offer a concise view of his Unitarian stance.

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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content…

William Ellery Channing

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“I call that mind free, which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content…

William Ellery Channing

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The spirit of liberty is not merely, as multitudes imagine, a jealousy of our own particular rights, but a respect for the…

William Ellery Channing

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Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit…

William Ellery Channing

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Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness,…

William Ellery Channing

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Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction…

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It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach…

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Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men,…

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The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found…

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A man may quarrel with himself alone; that is, by controverting his better instincts and knowledge when brought face to face with temptation.

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Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent; but these are all poor and worthless compared with the…

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Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.

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All virtue lies in individual action, in inward energy, in self determination. There is no moral worth in being swept away by a crowd…

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We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

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To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

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No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition…

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I call that mind free which jealously guards its intellectual rights and powers, which calls no man master, which does not content itself with…

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Error is discipline through which we advance.

William Ellery Channing

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Ideas are the mightiest influence on earth. One great thought breathed into a man may regenerate him.

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To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy,…

William Ellery Channing