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
Evil
War
Form
Resist
Worst
Jesus

More quotes by Theodore Parker

Image
It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
Theodore Parker
Image
A democracy,- that is 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 for shortness' sake I will call it the idea of Freedom.
Theodore Parker
Image
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.
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
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.
Theodore Parker
Image
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker
Image
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.
Theodore Parker
Image
All men desire to be immortal.
Theodore Parker
Image
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.
Theodore Parker
Image
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
Theodore Parker
Image
There is no college for the conscience.
Theodore Parker
Image
That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
Theodore Parker
Image
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
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
Disappointment is often the salt of life.
Theodore Parker
Image
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
Theodore Parker
Image
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
Image
Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people.
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
Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
Theodore Parker