Quote#God & Faith
I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much…
Quote byWilliam Ellery Channing · 1780–1842
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: "Likeness to God", an address in Providence, Rhode Island (1828).
English (original)
I see the marks of God in the heavens and the earth, but how much more in a liberal intellect, in magnanimity, in unconquerable rectitude, in a philanthropy which forgives every wrong, and which never despairs of the cause of Christ and human virtue. I do and I must reverence human nature... I thank God that my own lot is bound up with that of the human race.
— William Ellery Channing
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