The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Discourses of theology |
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atheist beauty believe Bible blessed body Boston Catholic Christ Christendom Christian church Christian theology comes conscience consciousness death delight devil divine doctrines duty earth Ecclesiastical Institutions England eternal evil eyes fact Father fear feel flowers FRANCES POWER COBBE God's hand handsome heart heaven Hebrew hell holy honour human nature immortality infinite perfection inspiration instinctive Jesus Jesus of Nazareth justice ligion live look man-the man's mankind manly mind minister miraculous morality Moses mother nation never noble old age Old Testament once Paul of Tarsus Pharisees piety poor pray prayer preach priest prophets Protestant Puritans religious faculty revelation Sabbath Sadducees saints salvation sect sermon slave slavery soul spirit Sunday taught tell THEODORE PARKER thereof things thou thought thousand tion to-day totally depraved true truth Unitarian whole wicked woman women words world of matter worship wrath
Popular passages
Page 1 - Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? 49 But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Page 210 - NEARER, my God, to thee, Nearer to thee ! E'en though it be a cross That raiseth me...
Page 208 - Paradise, and groves Elysian, Fortunate Fields — like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main, why should they be A history only of departed things, Or a mere fiction of what never was? For the discerning intellect of Man, When wedded to this goodly universe In love and holy passion, shall find these A simple produce of the common day.
Page 245 - Defend me therefore, common sense, say I, From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up...
Page 191 - tis a thing impossible to frame Conceptions equal to the soul's desires, And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain.
Page 211 - But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.
Page 5 - We know that God spake unto Moses ; but as for this fellow, we know not whence he is.
Page 129 - That chang'd through all, and yet in all the same, Great in the earth as in the' ethereal frame, Warms in the sun, refreshes in the breeze, Glows in the stars, and blossoms in the tree* ; Lives through all life, extends through all extent, Spreads undivided, operates unspent...
Page 150 - ... glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace and good will to men.
Page 120 - The world was all before him, where to choose His place of rest, and Providence his guide.3 80.