Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive. — Theodore Parker Controversy Copy Share Image
The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties. — Theodore Parker Character Copy Share Image
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.". — Theodore Parker Democracy Copy Share Image
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving. — Theodore Parker Generosity Copy Share Image
Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body. — Theodore Parker Body Copy Share Image
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.” — Theodore Parker Character Copy Share Image
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head. — Theodore Parker Asylums Copy Share Image
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will… — Theodore Parker Affinity Copy Share Image
[America is] a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity… — Theodore Parker Betrayal Copy Share Image
What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in… — Theodore Parker Beauty Copy Share Image
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. — Theodore Parker Desire Copy Share Image
I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not… — Theodore Parker Idols Copy Share Image
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony… — Theodore Parker Aliens Copy Share Image
To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule… — Theodore Parker Ancient 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.… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy… — Theodore Parker Book Copy Share Image
Manly natural religion - it is not joining the Church; it is not to believe in a creed, Hebrew, Protestant, Catholic, Trinitarian,… — Theodore Parker Atheism Copy Share Image
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities… — Theodore Parker Cities Copy Share Image
I believe in the admission of women to the full rights of citizenship and share in government, on the express grounds that… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The Roman Christian mythology (and theology) discourages the vice of licentiousness, and so this is better than the heathen, but it encourages… — 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
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil. — Theodore Parker Evil Copy Share Image
I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest. — Theodore Parker Age Copy Share Image
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