Source: The Sermons of Religion
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Famous Theodore Parker Quotes
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“Wit has its place in debate; in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.”
Source: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
“It is vain to trust in wrong; as much of evil, so much of loss, is the formula of human history.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.”
Source: Critical Writings
“The heresy of one age is the orthodox belief and "only infallible rule" of the nest.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: A discourse of matter pertaining to religion
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics
“The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.”
“Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.".”
“A happy wedlock is a long falling in love.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.”
Source: Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship
“Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.”
Source: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.”
Source: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
“Disappointment is often the salt of life.”
Source: Miscellaneous Discourses
Source: The Collected Works of ... P. ...
“As society advances the standard of poverty rises.”
Source: Critical Writings
Source: Sermons of Theism, Atheism, and the Popular Theology
Source: The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“I ask no risen dust to teach me immortality; I am conscious of eternal life.”
Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846
Source: Works
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion and Prayers
“Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.”
“Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor”
Source: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“All men desire to be immortal.”
Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846