William Ellery Channing Quotes About Conscience

Quotes about: Conscience

• 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Life, Responsibility, Influence

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.285

• To extinguish the free will is to strike the conscience with death, for both have but one and the same life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Free Will, Strikes, Conscience

  William Ellery Channing, George Channing (1849). “(XXX, 387 p.)”, p.13

• It is far more important to me to preserve an unblemished conscience than to compass any object however great.

  William Ellery Channing

  Important, Compass, Objects

• 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 he 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.

  William Ellery Channing

  Art, Light, Sky

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.4

• Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

  William Ellery Channing

  Giving, Delight, Infinite

  William Ellery Channing (1888). “The Works of William E. Channing”

• Conscience, the sense of right, the power of perceiving moral distinctions, the power of discerning between justice and injustice, excellence and baseness, is the highest faculty given us by God, the whole foundation of our responsibility, and our sole capacity for religion. ...God, in giving us conscience, has implanted a principle within us which forbids us to prostrate ourselves before mere power, or to offer praise where we do not discover worth.

  William Ellery Channing

  Responsibility, Giving, Justice

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