William Ellery Channing

Quotes

• “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.”
• “We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.”
• “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.”
• “The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.”
• “Likeness to God is the supreme gift. He can communicate nothing so precious, glorious, blessed, as himself. To hold intellectual and moral affinity with the Supreme Being, to partake his spirit, to be his children by derivations of kindred excellence, to bear a growing conformity to the perfection which we adore, this is a felicity which obscures and annihilates all other good.It is only in proportion to this likeness, that we can enjoy either God or the universe.”

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