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Letter "W" » William Ellery Channing Quotes
«It is mind which does the work of the world, so that the more there is of mind, the more work will be accomplished.»
«We do not pretend to know the whole nature and properties of God, but still we can form some clear ideas of him, and can reason from these ideas as justly as from any other. The truth is, that we cannot be said to comprehend any being whatever, not the simplest plant or animal. All have hidden properties. Our knowledge of all is limited.»
«The only God whom our thoughts can rest on, our hearts cling to, and our conscience can recognize, is the God whose image dwells in our own souls.»
«Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the same manner as that of other books. We believe that God, when he speaks to the human race, conforms, if we may so say, to the established rules of speaking and writing. How else would the Scriptures avail us more, than if communicated in an unknown tongue?»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
communicated, conforms, interpreting
«The less of government the better, if society were kept in peace and prosperity.»
«Health is the working man's fortune, and he ought to watch over it more than the capitalist over his largest investments. Health lightens the efforts of body and mind. It enables a man to crowd much work into a narrow compass. Without it, little can be earned, and that little by slow, exhausting toil.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
capitalist, investments, largest, lightens, working man
«One of the tremendous evils of the world, is the monstrous accumulation of power in a few hands.»
«I do and I must reverence human nature. I bless it for its kind affections. I honor it for its achievements in science and art, and still more for its examples of heroic and saintly virtue. These are marks of a divine origin and the pledges of a celestial inheritance; and I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
bound up, celestial, examples, human origin, pledges, saintly
«There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.»
«It is a greater work to educate a child, in the true and larger sense of the word, than to rule a state.»
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