William Ellery Channing Quotes

• No power in society, no hardship in your condition can depress you, keep you down, in knowledge, power, virtue, influence, but by your own consent.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Influence, Knowledge, Power

  Tags in Hardship

• The great hope of society is in individual character.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Individual, Character, Hope

• All noble enthusiasms pass through a feverish stage, and grow wiser and more serene.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Noble, Wiser, Enthusiasm

• He who is false to the present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and you will see the effect when the weaving of a life-time is unraveled.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Thread, Duty, Present

• Grandeur of character lies wholly in force of soul, that is, in the force of thought, moral principle, and love, and this may be found in the humblest condition of life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Love, Soul

  Tags in Humblest, Character, Thought, Force

• Undoubtedly a man is to labor to better his condition, but first to better himself.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Work

  Tags in Labor

• The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Youth

  Tags in Wasted, Energy, Spirit

• We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Smile

  Tags in Blunder, Tree, Ignorance, Order

• It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Compass, School, Conscience

• Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Ideals

  Tags in Conscience

• The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Interest, Man, Book

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Knowledge, Nature

  Tags in Growth, Ignorance, Mind

• The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Heaven, Communication, Mind
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  The home is the chief school of human virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, School
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  Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Conflict, Difficulty, Rouse, Spirit

• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in God

  Tags in Distant, Books - Reading, Books

• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Form, Faith

• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy the intercourse with superior minds.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books

• Every man is a volume, if you know how to read him.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no other is, and to do what no other can do.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Human Being

William Ellery Channing (41)

Birth:	7th April, 1780
Death:	2nd October, 1842
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Preacher, Theologian, Writer

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