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William Ellery Channing on Easter

1780–1842 United States

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Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

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)

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

The strongest love which the human heart has ever felt has been that for its Heavenly Parent. Was it not then constituted for this love?

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

Every thing here, but the soul of man, is a passing shadow. The only enduring substance is within. When shall we awake to the sublime greatness, the perils, the accountableness, and the glorious destinies of the immortal soul?

Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)

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