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
fall character men
Every man has at times in his mind the ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character. * * * Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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.
men hands body
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of the hand.
men ideas justice
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.
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 world
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study.
dark men civilization
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.
men soul produce
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
business taken men
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business.
heart men practice
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.
religious men idols
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.
men mankind
No man is so great as mankind.
men desire immortal
All men desire to be immortal.