The greatest truths are wronged if not linked with beauty, and they win their way most surely and deeply into the soul when arrayed in this their natural and fit attire.
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The great end in religious instruction, is not to stamp our minds upon the young, but to stir up their own not to make them see with our eyes, but to look inquiringly and steadily with their own not to give them a definite amount of knowledge, but to inspire a fervent love of truth not to form an outward regularity, but to touch inward springs not to bind them by ineradicable prejudices to our particular sect or peculiar notions, but to prepare them for impartial, conscientious judging of whatever subjects may be offered to their decision not to burden memory, but to quicken and strengthen the power of thought.William Channing
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
William Channing
The chief evil of war is more evil. War is the concentration of all human crimes. Here is its distinguishing, accursed brand. Under its standard gather violence, malignity, rage, fraud, perfidy, rapacity, and lust. If it only slew man, it would do little. It turns man into a beast of prey.
William Channing
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new power.
William Channing
There are periods when to dare, is the highest wisdom.
William Channing
We ought, indeed, to expect occasional obscurity in such a book at the Bible . . . but God's wisdom is a pledge that whatever is necessary for us , and necessary for salvation, is revealed too plainly to be mistaken.
William Channing
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