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
success succeed habit
What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
truth home doors
Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed to his door, herself her only dower.
long hopeful despair
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue.
kings greatness years
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.
weapons offensive debate
Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
loss evil vain
It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.
stars men heaven
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven.
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.
love love-is affection
Love is the piety of the affections.
men jewels world
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
character joy heaven
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.
satisfaction life-is passports
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
stronger cannons intellect
Intellect is stronger than cannon.