Theodore Parker Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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

• What sad faces one always sees in the asylums for orphans! It is more fatal to neglect the heart than the head.

  Theodore Parker

  Heart, Asylums, Faces

  Theodore Parker (1867). “The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Sermons. Prayers”, p.71

• The great basis of the Christian faith is compassion; do not dismiss that from your hearts, neither will your Maker.

  Theodore Parker

  Christian, Heart, Compassion

• 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

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