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
humanity sin
Humanity is the sin of God
religious men idols
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
allies natural science-and-religion
Science is the natural ally of religion.
divine-order body preservation
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.
soul body fool
The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.
joy
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
war evil form
And war-the worst form of evil!
son humanity
Humanity is the Son of God.
men mankind
No man is so great as mankind.
men desire immortal
All men desire to be immortal.
men years selfishness
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. - The world would foment with revolution.
sacrifice laughing desire
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.
summer sweet winter
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
men use littles
All men need something to poetize and idealize their life a little-something which they value for more than its use, and which is a symbol of their emancipation from the mere materialism and drudgery of daily life.