“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
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. — Theodore Parker Book Copy Share Image
Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry. — Theodore Parker Death Copy Share Image
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor — Theodore Parker Design Copy Share Image
Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact. — Theodore Parker Facts Copy Share Image
There is no intercessor, angel, mediator, between man and God; for man can speak and God hear, each for himself. He requires… — Theodore Parker Angel Copy Share Image
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him… — Theodore Parker Business Copy Share Image
“To make one half the human race consume its energies in the functions of housekeeper, wife and mother is a monstrous waste… — Theodore Parker Human race Copy Share Image
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for… — Theodore Parker Government Copy Share Image
He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
No virtue fades out of mankind. Not over-hopeful by inborn temperament, cautious by long experience, I yet never despair of human virtue. — Theodore Parker Cautious Copy Share Image
Love of truth will bless the lover all his days; yet when he brings her home, his fair-faced bride, she comes empty-handed… — 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 Body 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
Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind. — Theodore Parker Ideals Copy Share Image
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in. — Theodore Parker God Copy Share Image
The duty of labor is written on a man's body: in the stout muscle of the arm,, and the delicate machinery of… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means… — Theodore Parker Death Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Book Copy Share Image
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
It is not from the tall crowded workhouse of prosperity that men first or clearest see the eternal stars of heaven. — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul. — Theodore Parker Beauty Copy Share Image
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a… — Theodore Parker Fruit Copy Share Image
In all the world there is nothing so remarkable as a great man, nothing so rare, nothing which so well repays study. — Theodore Parker Great man 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 Care Copy Share Image
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced; never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner… — Theodore Parker Great man Copy Share Image
