“The sages and heroes of history are receding from us, and history contracts the record of their deeds into a narrow and narrower page. But time has no power over the name and deeds and words of Jesus Christ.”

—  William Ellery Channing

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 61

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United States Unitarian clergyman 1780–1842

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