Theodore Parker
Theodore Parker
Theodore Parkerwas an American Transcendentalist and reforming minister of the Unitarian church. A reformer and abolitionist, his words and popular quotations would later inspire speeches by Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King, Jr...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth24 August 1810
CountryUnited States of America
Theodore Parker quotes about
disappointment salt disappointment-love
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
home honest labor
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
success succeed habit
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
truth home doors
Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.
long hopeful despair
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
kings greatness years
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
jesus men newton
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
silence speech cold
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
vanity giving liberality
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
immortality conscious eternal-life
I am conscious of eternal life.
college conscience
There is no college for the conscience.
nature nice butterfly
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
religious nature book
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.
christian heart compassion
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.