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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.”
“Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
Source: Critical Writings
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“Great success is a great temptation.”
Source: Miscellaneous Discourses
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
Source: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Source: A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion
Source: The Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
“There is no college for the conscience.”
Source: The Sermons of Religion
“The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.”
“The joy of heaven will begin as soon as we attain the character of heaven, and do its duties.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology
“I am conscious of eternal life.”
Source: A Sermon of Immortal Life: Preached at the Melodeon, on Sunday, September 20th, 1846
“I look through the grave into heaven.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology
“Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.”
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Lessons from the world of matter and the world of man
Source: Additional Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
“Greatness is its own torment.”
Source: Ten Sermons of Religion
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology
“The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.”
Source: Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of politics
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“Justice is the idea of God, the ideal of man, the rule of conduct writ in the nature of mankind.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
Source: The critical and miscellaneous writings of Theodore Parker
“That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.”
Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
“Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.”
Source: Centenary Edition [of the Writings of Theodore Parker]
“Nature is man's religious book, with lessons for every day.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery
“Silence is a figure of speech, unanswerable, short, cold, but terribly severe.”
Source: The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers
“Be not familiar with the idea of wrong, for sin in fancy mothers many an ugly fact.”
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
Source: Lessons from the World of Matter and the World of Man
“What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.”
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