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
religious strong character
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
marriage made materials
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
heart men fire
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
religious men lines
If belief in the miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New is required to make a man religious, then Franklin had no religion at all. It would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for. I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
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.
heart asylums faces
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
loss evil vain
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
weapons offensive debate
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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.