"Once we are born again, Jesus quickens us to interlink ourselves with all mankind of all classes and conditions, -- by reverent admiration with the good, by reconciling mercy with the evil, by cheerful sympathy with the happy, by tender compassion with the suffering, by redeeming pity with the oppressed, by hope with all, -- and this to make our own lives entirely one with the life of our Race. There is an exulting joy in this enlargement of Personal Being; and this limitless expansion of love was an essential aim of our Savior."

William Ellery Channing.