More From William Ellery Channing
- "How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success."
- "The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
- "The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, loses its life, just as the body droops when debarred from the air and the cheering light from heaven."
More In Faith
- "My faith grew strong, and I sent a letter (as I was ordered) to the Rev. Dignitary of the Cathedral of Exeter. I was assured, before I sent it, he would not answer it."― Joanna Southcott
- "Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."― Martin Luther King, Jr.
- "When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith."― Junius