William Ellery Channing Quotes
1780 – 1842
American Unitarian preacher and writer.
“God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead.”
“God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.”
“He can communicate nothing so precious, glorious, blessed, as himself.”
“Its noblest influence consists in making us more and more partakers of the Divinity.”
“I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.”
“All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.”
“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”
“Whatever you may suffer, speak the truth. Be worthy of the entire confidence of your associates.”
“The light and life which spring up in one soul are to be spread far and wide.”
“Undoubtedly some men are more gifted than others, and are marked out for more studious lives.”
“The right is the supreme good, and includes all other goods.”
“He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may.”
