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
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.
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
poverty poor standards
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
pain sin remorse
Remorse is the pain of sin.
dark civilization cities
Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization, whence light and heat radiated out into the dark.
dust immortality eternity
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.
politics urgency
Politics is the science of urgencies.
book thinking make-you-think
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
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.
government self people
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
design fields labor
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
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.
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.