Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.
Theodore Parker
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Theodore Parker
Age: 49 †
Born: 1810
Born: August 24
Died: 1860
Died: May 10
Theologian
Lexington
Massachusetts
Orphan
Fatal
Neglect
Sees
Head
Faces
Heart
Orphans
Always
Asylums
More quotes by Theodore Parker
Remorse is the pain of sin.
Theodore Parker
Science is the natural ally of religion.
Theodore Parker
Pride is both a virtue and a vice.
Theodore Parker
You may not, cannot, appropriate beauty. It is the wealth of the eye, and a cat may gaze upon a king.
Theodore Parker
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
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
Theodore Parker
The earnestness of life is the only passport to satisfaction of life.
Theodore Parker
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
There is no college for the conscience.
Theodore Parker
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
It takes a Newton to forge a Newton. What man could have fabricated a Jesus? None but a Jesus.
Theodore Parker
Greatness is its own torment.
Theodore Parker
I look through the grave into heaven.
Theodore Parker
Great success is a great temptation.
Theodore Parker
Applying good sense to religion and religion to life. This is the field in which I design to labor
Theodore Parker
The diamond which shines in the Saviour's crown shall burn in unquenched beauty at last on the forehead of every human soul.
Theodore Parker
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker
Wit has its place in debate in controversy it is a legitimate weapon, offensive and defensive.
Theodore Parker
Man never falls so low that he can see nothing higher than himself.
Theodore Parker
Self-denial is indispensable to a strong character, and the highest kind comes from a religious stock.
Theodore Parker