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
brave depended duty faithfully front great knew mankind rank shop stood victory
Let us do our duty in our shop or kitchen; in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and
achieves army depends duty faithfully front great humblest knew mankind rank serving shop stood victory welfare
Let us do our duty, in our shop in our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depends on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.
inward failing judgment
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
atheist eye sight
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight, I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice.
disappointment salt disappointment-love
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
kings greatness years
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
humanity sin
Humanity is the sin of God
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.
marriage made materials
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
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.