Top 100 Hosea Ballou Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.”

— Hosea Ballou

52. “Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to be retained.”

— Hosea Ballou

53. “Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.”

— Hosea Ballou

54. “Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.”

— Hosea Ballou

55. “Kecurigaan selalu menjadi musuh kebahagiaan.”

— Hosea Ballou

56. “Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.”

— Hosea Ballou

57. “It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.”

— Hosea Ballou

58. “Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross.”

— Hosea Ballou

59. “Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse.”

— Hosea Ballou

60. “Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.”

— Hosea Ballou

61. “It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.”

— Hosea Ballou

62. “Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.”

— Hosea Ballou

63. “Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.”

— Hosea Ballou

64. “I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.”

— Hosea Ballou

65. “The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought.”

— Hosea Ballou

66. “There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.”

— Hosea Ballou

67. “Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.”

— Hosea Ballou

68. “Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.”

— Hosea Ballou

69. “No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene.”

— Hosea Ballou

70. “It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”

— Hosea Ballou

71. “Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.”

— Hosea Ballou

72. “Error is always more busy than truth.”

— Hosea Ballou

73. “Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.”

— Hosea Ballou

74. “It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store.”

— Hosea Ballou

75. “Self-respect is the best of all.”

— Hosea Ballou

76. “Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.”

— Hosea Ballou

77. “Rage is mental imbecility.”

— Hosea Ballou

78. “To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.”

— Hosea Ballou

79. “Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged.”

— Hosea Ballou

80. “That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.”

— Hosea Ballou

81. “True sympathy is putting ourselves in another’s place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.”

— Hosea Ballou

82. “It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.”

— Hosea Ballou

83. “Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.”

— Hosea Ballou

84. “Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature’s God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.”

— Hosea Ballou

85. “We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.”

— Hosea Ballou

86. “How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.”

— Hosea Ballou

87. “Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.”

— Hosea Ballou

88. “How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!”

— Hosea Ballou

89. “If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?”

— Hosea Ballou

90. “It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over.”

— Hosea Ballou

91. “Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation.”

— Hosea Ballou

92. “Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.”

— Hosea Ballou

93. “There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.”

— Hosea Ballou

94. “A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.”

— Hosea Ballou

95. “A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.”

— Hosea Ballou

96. “The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.”

— Hosea Ballou

97. “The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.”

— Hosea Ballou

98. “Prosperity often presages adversity.”

— Hosea Ballou

99. “It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.”

— Hosea Ballou

100. “True repentance also involves reform.”

— Hosea Ballou