William Ellery Channing Quotes About Purpose

Quotes about: Purpose

• Soul Gathers Force It is possible, when the future is dim, when our depressed faculties can form no bright ideas of the perfection and happiness of a better world,-it is possible still to cling to the conviction of God's merciful purpose towards His creatures, of His parental goodness even in suffering, still to feel that the path of duty, though trodden with a heavy heart, leads to peace.

  William Ellery Channing

  Heart, Ideas, Perfection

• An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

  William Ellery Channing

  Purpose, Golden, Moments

• Perhaps in our presence, the most heroic deed on earth is done in some silent spirit, the loftiest purpose cherished, the most generous sacrifice made, and we do not suspect it. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

  William Ellery Channing

  Believe, Sacrifice, Greatness

  William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An Address Introductory to the Franklin Lectures, Delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.8

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