William Ellery Channing Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

  William Ellery Channing

  Book, Men, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

• It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with the superior minds, and these invaluable means of communication are in reach of all. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours. God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are true levellers. They give to all, who faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence of the best and greatest of our race.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spiritual, Book, Communication

  William Ellery CHANNING (1839). “Self-Culture. An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston. 1838”, p.16

• The only freedom worth possessing is that which gives enlargement to a people's energy, intellect, and virtues.

  William Ellery Channing

  Freedom, People, Giving

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.204

• Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spiritual, Book, Race

  William Ellery Channing, American Unitarian Association (1855). “A selection from the works of William E. Channing”, p.430

• To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

  William Ellery Channing

  Hope, Nature, Men

• The domestic relations precede, and in our present existence are worth more than all our other social ties. They give the first throb to the heart, and unseal the deep fountains of its love. Home is the chief school of human virtue. Its responsibilities, joys, sorrows, smiles, tears, hopes, and solicitudes form the chief interest of human life.

  William Ellery Channing

  Home, Heart, School

  William Ellery Channing (1837). “Essays, Literary & Political”, p.364

• The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

  William Ellery Channing

  Happiness, Patriotic, Opportunity

• Do anything rather than give yourself to reverie.

  William Ellery Channing

  Giving, Reverie

• 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”

• No man receives the full culture of a man in whom the sensibility to the beautiful is not cherished; and there is no condition of life from which it should be excluded. Of all luxuries this is the cheapest, and the most at hand, and most important to those conditions where coarse labor tends to give grossness to the mind.

  William Ellery Channing

  Beautiful, Men, Luxury

• 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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