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Remorse is the pain of sin. (Theodore Parker)
All men desire to be immortal. View quote
Theodore Parker
It is very sad for a man to make himself servant to a single thing; his manhood all taken out of him by the hydraulic pressure of excessive business. View quote
Theodore Parker
Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in. View quote
Theodore Parker
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold. View quote
Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. View quote
Theodore Parker
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never. View quote
Theodore Parker
Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so. View quote
Theodore Parker
Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God. View quote
Theodore Parker
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. View quote
Theodore Parker
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock. (Theodore Parker)
Politics is the science of urgencies. View quote
Theodore Parker
Wealth and want equally harden the human heart. View quote
Theodore Parker
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God. View quote
Theodore Parker
Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right. I do not pretend to understand the moral universe; the arc is a long one, my eye reaches but little ways; I cannot calculate the curve and complete the figure by the experience of sight; I can divine it by conscience. And from what I see I am sure it bends towards justice. View quote
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In America, the Democratic Party thinks slavery is 'indispensable to good government', and is 'the normal condition of one seventh part of the people. View quote
Theodore Parker
Democracy means not "I am as good as you are" but "You are as good as I am.". View quote
Theodore Parker
Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself. View quote
Theodore Parker
This idea demands, as the proximate organization thereof, a democracy, that is, a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government after the principles of eternal justice, the unchanging law of God; for shortness' sake, I will call it the idea of Freedom. View quote
Theodore Parker
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected. View quote
Theodore Parker
The people are not satisfied with any form of government, or statute law, until it comes up to their sense of justice; so every progressive State revises its statutes from time to time, and at each revision comes nearer to the absolute right which human nature demands. (Theodore Parker)
Variant : This is what I call the American idea of freedom - a government of all the people, by all the people, for all the people; of course, a government of the principles of eternal justice - the unchanging law of God. View quote
Theodore Parker
Observation and reflection only give us the actual of morals; conscience, by gradual and successive intuition, presents us the ideal of morals. View quote
Theodore Parker
Justice is moral temperance in the world of men. It keeps just relations between men; one man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great, to a majority, or to all men. View quote
Theodore Parker
Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations. View quote
Theodore Parker