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
shining soul crowns
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
humanity sin
Humanity is the sin of God
politics urgency
Politics is the science of urgencies.
dust immortality eternity
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
dark civilization cities
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
pain sin remorse
Remorse is the pain of sin.
poverty poor standards
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
flower hands years
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.
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.
space government law
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
justice long oval
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
brother soul body
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
nature old-testament testament
Nature is God's Old Testament.
beauty kings cat
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.