William Ellery Channing Quotes About Responsibility

Quotes about: Responsibility

• 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

• 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

• 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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