I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home,… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Did the mass of men know the actual selfishness and injustice of their rulers, not a government would stand a year. -… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The use of great men is to serve the little men, to take care of the human race, and act as practical… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
A democracy,- that is a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
For a thousand years no king in Christendom has shown such greatness or given so high a type of manly virtue. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The lottery of honest labor, drawn by time, is the only one whose prizes are worth taking up and carrying home. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian, Unitarian, Nothingarian.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
