William Ellery Channing Quotes on Life
William Ellery Channing was an American Unitarian minister, theologian, and one of the most influential moral voices of the early American republic. This page collects quotes attributed to William Ellery Channing on the topic of life, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to William Ellery Channing:
“The true sublimity of life is to be found in noble service.”
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“I am a living member of the great Family of All Souls; and I cannot improve or suffer myself without diffusing good or evil around me through an ever-enlarging sphere.”
The Father's Love for Persons", in Selected Discourses and Essays from the Works of William Ellery Channing, DD (1895) -
“We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity . "To us," as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, "there is one God, even the Father." With Jesus , we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God.”
Unitarian Christianity", an address to The First Independent Church of Baltimore (5 May 1819) -
“Review of The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte (1827) by Sir Walter Scott , in the Christian Examiner (September - October 1827)”
The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.