Joseph Parker Quotes

#1. It is right for you, young men, to enrich yourselves with the spoils of all pure literature; but he who would make a favorite of a bad book, simply because it contains a few beautiful passages, might as well caress the hand of an assassin because of the jewelry which sparkles on his fingers.

Joseph Parker

#2. The truly religious man does everything as if everything depends on himself, and then leaves everything as if everything depended on God.

Joseph Parker

#3. Sin is a clenched fist and a blow in the face of God.

Joseph Parker

#4. Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Joseph Parker

#5. When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.

Joseph Parker

#6. Only Christ could have conceived Christ.

Joseph Parker

#7. The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

Joseph Parker

#8. No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart.

Joseph Parker

#9. True preaching is the sweating of blood.

Joseph Parker

#10. Speak to the suffering, and you will never lack an audience. There is a broken heart in every crowd.

Joseph Parker

#11. After reading the doctrines of Plato, Socrates or Aristotle, we feel the specific difference between their words and Christ's is the difference between an inquiry and a revelation.

Joseph Parker

#12. Have no fear for the unsettlement or the disturbance of the Kingdom of heaven. It began in eternity, it will go on through everlasting; there is no panic in the divine personality. God is peace, God gives peace, God gives rest.

Joseph Parker

#13. Never throw mud. You may miss the mark, and you'll have dirty hands.

Joseph Parker

#14. Everywhere I find the signature, the autograph of God, and he will never deny his own handwriting. God has set his tabernacle in the dewdrop as surely as in the sun. No man can any more create the smallest flower than he could create the greatest world.

Joseph Parker

#15. Giving up on life is easier than going through the hard times to find the good.

Joseph Parker