The true office of religion is to bring out the whole nature of man in harmonious activity.
Quotes from Forty Thousand Quotations — William Ellery Channing
1780–1842 United States
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Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
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Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
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Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
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Home is the chief school of human virtue.
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It is men of faith, not sceptics, who have made the world aware that they were in it.
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Attributed Forty Thousand Quotations (1917)
A man in earnest finds means, or, if he cannot find, creates them.
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Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
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Friends are to incite one another to God’s works.
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He is to be educated because he is a man, and not because he is to make shoes, nails, and pins.
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No evil is intolerable but a guilty conscience.
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No man should part with his own individuality and become that of another.
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One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
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Sincerity, truth, faithfulness, come into the very essence of friendship.
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