Theodore Parker Quotes

The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.

The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.

Intellect is stronger than cannon.

The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.

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.

Greatness is its own torment.

As society advances the standard of poverty rises.

Religion without joy-it is no religion.

Great success is a great temptation.

What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.

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.

I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.

Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Nature is God's Old Testament.

Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.

Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.

Love is the piety of the affections.

I look through the grave into heaven.

For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue.

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.

What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.

Marriages are best made of dissimilar material.

All men desire to be immortal.

Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor

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.

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.

I am conscious of eternal life.

The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders; it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.

Democracy means not "I am as good as you are " but "You are as good as I am."

Democracy is direct self-government over all the people for all the people by all the people.

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.

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart.