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
marriage made materials
Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.
religious strong character
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
beauty kings cat
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
nature old-testament testament
Nature is God's Old Testament.
home honest labor
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home.
fall men lows
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
nature nice butterfly
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
religious nature book
Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.
christian heart compassion
The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.
prayer heart men
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.
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.
silence speech cold
Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.
mother ideas ugly
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.
mean loss men
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.