William Ellery Channing Quotes on Love
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 love, 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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Attributed to William Ellery Channing:
“Self-reverence is the foundation of all reverence.”
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“The Father's Love for Persons", in Selected Discourses and Essays from the Works of William Ellery Channing, DD (1895)”
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. -
“God deliver us all from prejudice and unkindness, and fill us with the love of truth and virtue.”
Unitarian Christianity"], an address to The First Independent Church of Baltimore (5 May 1819)