“Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.”

— WILLIAM CHANNING

American Unitarian theologian · 1780 – 1842

William Ellery Channing was an American Unitarian preacher and theologian, the leading voice of Unitarian Christianity in the early nineteenth century. His sermons and essays championed liberal religion, abolition and social reform.

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