128 Quotes by Theodore Parker

Truth stood on one side and Ease on the other; it has often been so.

Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.

Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen, in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength, and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Humanity is the sin of God

Yet, if he would, man cannot live all to this world. If not religious, he will be superstitious. IF he worship not the true God, he will have his idols.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

Temperance is corporeal piety; it is the preservation of divine order in the body.

The miser, poor fool, not only starves his body, but also his own soul.