William Ellery Channing ( 10 of 16 )
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
Mistake, error, is the discipline through which we advance.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict. -William Ellery Channing.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly read more
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly his, and which no conscience but his own can teach.
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me,
If my bark sinks, 'tis to another sea.
Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see.
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, read more
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.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
Labor is discovered to be the grand conqueror, enriching and
building up nations more surely than the proudest battles.
