William Ellery Channing Quotes

• Influence is to be measured, not by the extent of surface it covers, but by its kind.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Influence

• How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

  William Ellery Channing

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  Tags in Midst, Amiable

• 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

• Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

  William Ellery Channing

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  Tags in Intellectual, Rouse, Great Minds

• 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

• God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in God, Intelligence, Truth

  Tags in Imperfection

• 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

• Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Perfection

• 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

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

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Books - Reading

• Error is discipline through which we advance.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Mistake

  Tags in Discipline

• Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

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  Tags in Exactly

• Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Reverie

• 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

• 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

• The world is governed by opinion.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Politics

  Tags in Governed, Opinion

• 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

• Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Inspirational

  Tags in Form, Faith

• The home is the chief school of human virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Home, School

• 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

William Ellery Channing (41)

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

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