“I never allowed myself to put opinions upon the shelf as settled for ever.”

Committing to lifelong intellectual honesty and openness in the search for truth · Letter (as commonly recalled)

• Conviction
• Inquiry
• Truth

“God is my Saviour: in Him I fully trust. I beg you, therefore, to bear me witness that I die a Christian, because I am convinced that God has granted me the SPIRIT of Christianity: that I die a Unitarian, because I consider the spirit of our Body nearer to the spirit of Christianity, than that of any other Denomination.”

Affirming a personal, spirit-centred faith that transcends rigid denominational forms · Letter, 1838

• Death
• Faith
• Religion

“I now rejoice at the approach of Sunday. This very morning while at Chapel, I had the strongest and deepest conviction that I had never witnessed anything so really sublime as the whole worship in which I was joining. In a word, the whole service is a reality.”

Discovering genuine sublimity and authenticity in Unitarian worship after years of formal dissatisfaction · Journal entry, 11 April 1835

• Authenticity
• Faith
• Worship