Science and art may invent splendid modes of illuminating the apartments of the opulent but these are all poor and worthless compared with the common light which the sun sends into all our windows, which pours freely, impartially over hill and valley, which kindles daily the eastern and western sky and so the common lights of reason, and conscience, and love, are of more worth and dignity than the rare endowments which give celebrity to a few.
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Literature -- the expression of a nation's mind in writing.William Channing
Our leading principle in interpreting Scripture is this, that the Bible is a book written for men, in the language of men, and that its meaning is to be sought in the same manner as that of other books. We believe that God, when he speaks to the human race, conforms, if we may so say, to the established rules of speaking and writing. How else would the Scriptures avail us more, than if communicated in an unknown tongue
William Channing
To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.
William Channing
It the soul is truly an image of the infinity of God, and no words can do justice to its grandeur.
William Channing
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
William Channing
He is to be educated not because he's to make shoes, nails, and pins, but because he is a man.
William Channing
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