Maxioms by William Ellery Channing
The mind, in proportion as it is cut off from free communication with nature, with revelation, with God, with itself, read more
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.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Our faith comes in moments; our vice is habitual.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new
power.
Men are never very wise and select in the exercise of a new
power.
Every human being has a work to carry on within, duties to perform abroad, influence to exert, which are peculiarly read more
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.
