William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channing
William Ellery Channingwas the foremost Unitarian preacher in the United States in the early nineteenth century and along with Andrews Norton,, one of Unitarianism's leading theologians. He was known for his articulate and impassioned sermons and public speeches, and as a prominent thinker in the liberal theology of the day. Channing's religion and thought were among the chief influences on the New England Transcendentalists, though he never countenanced their views, which he saw as extreme. The beliefs he espoused, especially...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth7 April 1780
CountryUnited States of America
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An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.
The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.
No one should part with their individuality and become that of another.
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
Be true to your own highest convictions.
The miracles of Christ were studiously performed in the most unostentatious way. He seemed anxious to veil His majesty under the love with which they were wrought.
All that we do outwardly is but the expression and completion of our inward thought. To work effectively, we must think clearly; to act nobly, we must think nobly.
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.
What a sublime doctrine it is, that goodness cherished now is eternal life already entered on!
God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.