William Ellery Channing Quotes on Truth
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 truth, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to William Ellery Channing:
“Free thought is more sacred than even free speech.”
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Attributed to William Ellery Channing:
“There is no greater bondage than self-deceit.”
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“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) -
“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)