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1780–1842 United States

William Ellery Channing (April 7 1780 – October 2 1842) was the foremost Unitarian theologian and preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century.

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Also known as: Channing, William Ellery, W. E. Channing

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What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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.

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Let us aspire towards this living confidence, that it is the will of God to unfold and exalt without end the spirit that trusts itself to Him in well-doing as to a faithful Creator.

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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?

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

The true office of religion is to bring out the whole nature of man in harmonious activity.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

Every mind was made for growth, for knowledge; and its nature is sinned against when it is doomed to ignorance.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

I see nothing worth living for but the divine virtue which endures and surrenders all things for truth, duty, and mankind.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Home is the chief school of human virtue.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

It is men of faith, not sceptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people’s energy, intellect and virtues.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Friends are to incite one another to God’s works.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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