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
kings war grief
The Bible goes equally to the cottage of the peasant, and the palace of the king. - It is woven into literature, and colors the talk of the street. The bark of the merchant cannot sail without it; and no ship of war goes to the conflict but it is there. It enters men's closets; directs their conduct, and mingles in all the grief and cheerfulness of life.
beauty kings cat
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
marriage made materials
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
design fields labor
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
greatness
The most useful is the greatest.
greatness men race
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical interpreters of justice and truth.
greatness men mankind
The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
greatness men institutions
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
greatness men world
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
greatness torment
Greatness is its own torment.
divine-order body preservation
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
science greek truth-is
Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
pride vices virtue
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
attained blood constitution creeds history infidelity mother rebellious treason
We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.