Theodore Parker Quotes about Heart

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Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. Be true to your own mind and conscience, your heart and your soul. So only can you be true to God.

Theodore Parker

Heart, Self, Soul

Theodore Parker (1853). “Two Sermons Preached Before the Twenty-eighth Congregational Society in Boston: On the 14th and 21st of November, 1852, on Leaving Their Old and Entering a New Place of Worship”, p.58

To obtain a knowledge of duty, a man is not sent away, outside of himself, to ancient documents; for the only rule of faith a practice, the Word, is very nigh him, even in his heart, and by this word he is to try all documents.

Theodore Parker

Heart, Men, Practice

Theodore Parker (1842). “A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion”, p.216

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart...

Theodore Parker

Heart, Want, Wealth

"Treasury of Thought : Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors" edited by Martin M. Ballou, (p. 231), 1894.

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

Nature, Heart, Men

He prays best who, not asking God to do man's work, prays penitence, prays resolutions, and then prays deeds--thus supplicating with heart and head and hands.

Theodore Parker

Prayer, Heart, Men

Theodore Parker (1863). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of slavery”, p.179