Theodore Parker

Reverend Theodore Parker (1810-1860) was an American Unitarian and transcendentalist writer and preacher. He was an influential member of the abolitionist movement.

Every rose is an autograph from the hand of the Almighty God.

The Material World and Man's Relation Thereto

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 towards justice.

Of Justice and the Conscience

I love justice, not for its consequences for bodily gain, but for itself, for the moral truth and loveliness thereof.

Of Justice and the Conscience

Justice is the constitution or fundamental law of the moral universe, the law of right, a rule of conduct for man in all his moral relations.

Of Justice and the Conscience

Look at the facts of the world. You see a continual and progressive triumph of the right.

Of Justice and the Conscience

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.

Of the Position and Duty of a Minister

One man, however little, must not be sacrificed to another, however great…[or] to a majority, or to all men.

Of Justice and the Conscience

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Quoted by George Everett Ackerman

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Quoted by Gruwell and McCourt

The universe itself is a great autograph of the Almighty.

The Material World and Man's Relation Thereto

Truth stood on one side and ease on the other; it has often been so.

A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion

Wealth and want equally harden the human heart, like frost and fire both are alien to human flesh.

Treasury of Thought

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

You shall have joy, or you shall have power, said God; you shall not have both.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

Unknown

But it is also true that in the midst of darkness something new always springs to life and sooner or later produces fruit. On razed land life breaks through, stubbornly yet invincibly.

Francis (Pope)

Since exact science derives its exactness from measurements, the application of quantities, it is limited to matter; and since science is limited to matter, it has no philosophical or religious implications whatsoever.

Stacy Trasancos

As we are human, we can’t do what we can’t do; as we’re neurotic, we can’t do what we can.

Mignon McLaughlin

The worst evil is hardness of heart. Those who do not repent, who deliberately remain in their habits of sin, have the the most to fear.

Erasmus

Two classes of people make up the world: those who have found God, and those who are looking for Him—thirsting, hungering, seeking!

Fulton Sheen

Are we so much better than the people of other ages and of other countries, that the same allurements of power and greatness, which led them aside from their duty, will have no influence upon men in our country?

Robert Yates

Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are toiled to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death.

Winston Churchill

There may have been . . . some kind of clodhoppers who believed that every legend was true. But we shall be a much stupider kind of clodhoppers if we believe that every legend is legendary.

G. K. Chesterton

The romantic view of the natural world as a blissful Eden is only held by people who have no actual experience of nature.

Michael Crichton

For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind.

Holy Bible

There is something very unnatural and odious in a government a thousand leagues off.

John Adams

Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them.

Thomas Sowell

It’s disingenuous to call something a ‘right’ if you simultaneously demand that people take advantage of their ‘right’ whether they want to or not. That’s not a right, it’s a command. Republics have rights; tyrants have commands.

Scott Bradford

Look at my African American over here!

Donald Trump

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if the drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of the missing drop.

Teresa of Calcutta

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. . . . We have an obligation to call this what it is: the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

George W. Bush

Duck diplomacy . . . means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.

Unknown

The man with a new idea is a Crank until the idea succeeds.

Mark Twain