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Science is the natural ally of religion.

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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Did not Jesus say, resist not evil — with evil? Is not war the worst form of that evil.
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The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable
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That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.
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Man is the jewel of God, who has created this material world to keep his treasure in.
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Every man has at times in his mind the Ideal of what he should be, but is not. This ideal may be high and complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient yet in all men, that really seek to improve, it is better than the actual character... Man never falls so low, that he can see nothing higher than himself.
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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.
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What succeeds we keep, and it becomes the habit of mankind.
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect.
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Religion without joy-it is no religion.
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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.
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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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The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.
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The great man is to be the servant of mankind, not they of him.
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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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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.
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Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
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Great success is a great temptation.
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Science, also, is most largely indebted to these beauty-loving Greeks, for truth is one form of loveliness.
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Genius is the father of a heavenly line, but the mortal mother, that is industry.
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