Quote

Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.

Theodore Parker

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Jesus
Evil
War
Form
Resist
Worst

More quotes by Theodore Parker

Image
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker
Image
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
Theodore Parker
Image
Religion without joy-it is no religion.
Theodore Parker
Image
Such a large sweet fruit is a complete marriage, that it needs a very long summer to ripen in and then a long winter to mellow and season it.
Theodore Parker
Image
Who escapes a duty, avoids a gain.
Theodore Parker
Image
Nature is God's Old Testament.
Theodore Parker
Image
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
Theodore Parker
Image
As society advances the standard of poverty rises.
Theodore Parker
Image
Want and wealth equally harden the human heart, as frost and fire are both alien to the human flesh. Famine and gluttony alike drive away nature from the heart of man.
Theodore Parker
Image
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
Theodore Parker
Image
The union of men in large masses is indispensable to the development and rapid growth of the higher faculties of men. Cities have always been the fireplaces of civilization whence light and heat radiated out into the dark cold world.
Theodore Parker
Image
No man is so great as mankind.
Theodore Parker
Image
The whole sum and substance of human history may be reduced to this maxim: that when man departs from the divine means of reaching the divine end, he suffers harm and loss.
Theodore Parker
Image
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Theodore Parker
Image
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.
Theodore Parker
Image
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
Theodore Parker
Image
There is no college for the conscience.
Theodore Parker
Image
There never was a great truth but it was reverenced never a great institution, nor a great man, that did not, sooner or later, receive the reverence of mankind.
Theodore Parker
Image
The coat of the buffalo never pinches under the arm, never puckers at the shoulders it is always the same, yet never old fashioned nor out of date.
Theodore Parker
Image
Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
Theodore Parker