Theodore Parker Quotes

The soul of man was made to walk the skies.

If one feels the need of something grand, something infinite, something that makes one feel aware of God, one need not go far to find it.

People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are. And when you stop expecting material possessions to complete you, you'd be surprised at how much pleasure you get in material possessions. And when you stop expecting God to end all your troubles, you'd be surprised how much you like spending time with God.

But prosperity without a soul is like a corpse whose heart has stopped beating. There is no life, only consumption.

I light candles because I want to have candles lit, not because I need to see!

In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give.

Christianity is art and not money. Money is its curse.

God is a luxury I can't afford.

The soul needs more space than the body.

In the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.

The typical American believes that no necessity of the soul is free and that there are precious few, if any, which cannot be bought.

I pray before everything. When I wake up, before I eat, before I perform, before I go to sleep, in the moments I need guidance.

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Money's the solution, curing all the ails of the nation. But what about the hearts of man?

You have to decide to servant the gods of materialism all around us or the true and the living God.

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

I didn't mind giving up carnality, jewelry and red meat in return for comradeship and an afterlife.

All desire the gifts of God, but they do not desire God.

God has no need for our worship. It is we who need to show our gratitude for what we have received.