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«To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?»
«The distinctions of society vanish before the light of these truths. I attach myself to the multitude, not because they are voters and have political power; but because they are (human), and have within their reach the most glorious prizes of humanity. . . . Self-culture, the care which every (person) owes to (oneself), to the unfolding . . . of (one's) nature. . . .»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
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attach, distinctions, human culture, political power, prizes, unfolding, vanish
«What is mysterious, secret, unknown, cannot at the same time be known as an object of faith.»
«A single hour a day, steadily given to the study of some interesting subject, brings unexpected accumulations of knowledge.»
«We grow by love . . . others are our nutriment.»
«The more I examine Christianity, the more I am struck with its universality. I see in it a religion made for all regions and all times, for all classes and all stages of society.»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
classes, examine, regions, stages, struck, universality
«One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.»
«The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven.»
«Be true to your own highest conviction»
«He who possesses the divine powers of the soul is a great being, be his place what it may. You may clothe him with rags, may immure him in a dungeon, may chain him to slavish tasks. But he is still great . . . .»
Author: William Ellery Channing
(Author, Clergyman)
| Keywords:
clothe, divine power, dungeon, dungeons, immure, rags, slavish
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