William Augustus Muhlenberg Quotes

William Augustus Muhlenberg was an Episcopal clergyman and educator. Muhlenberg is considered the father of church schools in the United States. An early exponent of the Social Gospel, he founded St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. Muhlenberg was also an early leader of the liturgical movement in Anglican Christianity. His model schools on Long Island had a significant impact on the history of American education. Muhlenberg left his work in secondary education in 1845. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. September 1796 – 8. April 1877
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Famous William Augustus Muhlenberg Quotes

“I would not live alway: I ask not to stay
Where storm after storm rises dark o’er the way.”

William Augustus Muhlenberg

I would not live alway (published 1826), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Religion should never be held to account for inferior scholarship.”

William Augustus Muhlenberg

"The Development of the School Idea in American Church Life," in Dr. Muhlenberg by William Wilberforce Newton, 1890.

“The head should not be furnished at the expense of the heart.”

William Augustus Muhlenberg

AN ADDRESS, Delivered by WM. AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, after a public examination of the Students of the Institute at Flushing, L.I., July 28, 1831.

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