William Ellery Channing Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spring, Passion, Blood

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.32

• Another powerful principle of our nature, which is the spring of war, is the passion for superiority, for triumph, for power. The human mind is aspiring, impatient of inferiority, and eager for preeminence and control.

  William Ellery Channing

  Powerful, Spring, War

  William Ellery Channing (1835). “The works of Wm. Ellery Channing ...”, p.34

• War is to be ranked among the most dreadful calamities which fall on a guilty world; and, what deserves consideration, it tends to multiply and perpetuate itself without end. It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions, from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.

  William Ellery Channing

  Spring, War, Fall

  William Ellery CHANNING (1816). “A Sermon on War: delivered before the Convention of Congregational Ministers of Massachusetts, May 30, 1816, etc”, p.12

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