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
jesus prayer believe
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian. It is not to keep Sunday idle; to attend meetings; to be wet with water; to read the Bible; to offer prayers in words; to take bread and wine in the meeting house; love a scape-goat Jesus, or any other theological clap-trap.
angel men atheism
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires no advocates to plead for men.
christian mother hypocrisy
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages bigotry, hypocrisy, cant, and many another vice which the older Mother of Abominations kept clear from.
flower hands years
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God on this world about us. He has inscribed His thoughts in these marvelous hieroglyphics which sense and science have been these many thousand years seeking to understand.
mother betrayal blood
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.
immortality conscious eternal-life
I am conscious of eternal life.
heaven looks immortality
I look through the grave into heaven.
age nests belief
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.
loss men intellectual
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
stars men telescopes
Man is the highest product of his own history. The discoverer finds nothing so grand or tall as himself, nothing so valuable to him. The greatest star is at the small end, of the telescope,--the star that is looking, not looked after nor looked at.
mother father lines
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
inspirational gratitude appreciation
Gratitude is a nice touch of beauty added last of all to the countenance. Giving a classic beauty, an angelic loveliness, to the character.
gains duty
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
disappointment salt disappointment-love
Disappointment is often the salt of life.