William Ellery Channing: Religion is faith in an Infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that Rectitude which conscience commands us to see

Religion is faith in an Infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that Recti — William Ellery Channing

Religion is faith in an Infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that Rectitude which conscience commands us to seek, This conviction gives a Divine Sanction to duty.

William Ellery Channing

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الخَيْلُ وَاللّيْلُ وَالبَيْداءُ تَعرِفُني وَالسّيفُ وَالرّمحُ والقرْطاسُ وَالقَ — Al-Mutanabbi
When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to ev — Isaac Watts
Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy: a very stupid daught — Voltaire
Christianity taught only what the whole of Asia knew already long before and eve — Arthur Schopenhauer
My life is like a stroll upon the beach. — Henry David Thoreau
] fight dirt only with sweat. — Jules Renard
Satius est supervacua scire quam nihil. — Seneca
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts. — Fernando Pessoa
The charm of the best courages is that they are inventions, inspirations, flashe — Ralph Waldo Emerson
War is fought by human beings. — Carl von Clausewitz in On War
Happiness is surely the best teacher of good manners : only the unhappy are chur — Christopher Morley
We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us... — Leonardo da Vinci