~ William Ellery Channing Quotes ~

[MysteRy]

Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are and to do what no other can do.

[MysteRy]

What distinguishes war is not that man is slain but that he is slain spoiled crushed by the cruelty the injustice the treachery the murderous hand of man.

[MysteRy]

All that a man does outwardly is but the expression and completion of his inward thought. To work effectively he must think clearly; to act nobly he must think nobly.

[MysteRy]

The sages and heroes of history are receding from us and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrower and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.

[MysteRy]

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.