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Nature is God's Old Testament.
Theodore Parker
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Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
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Testament
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What a joy is there in a good book, writ by some great master of thought, who breaks into beauty as in summer the meadow into grass and dandelions and violets, with geraniums and manifold sweetness.
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The miraculous revelation of the Old Testament and the New, the miracles of famous men, Jews, Gentiles, or Christians, — then Franklin had no religion at all and it would be an insult to say that he believed in the popular theology of his time, or of ours, for I find not a line from his pen indicating any such belief.
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The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
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Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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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.
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Greatness is its own torment.
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Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
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It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
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I look through the grave into heaven.
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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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Mankind never loses any good thing, physical, intellectual, or moral, till it finds a better, and then the loss is a gain. No steps backward is the rule of human history. What is gained by one man is invested in all men, and is a permanent investment for all time.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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I do not pretend to understand the moral universe the arc is a long one. . . . But from what I see I am sure it bends toward justice.
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