Hosea Ballou Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Inspirational #Summer #Rain

“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Happiness #Happy #Real

“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Experience #Tangible #Theory

“Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Honesty #People #Littles

“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Charity #Divinity #Divine

“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Gratitude #Spring #Heart

“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Biblical #Mountain #Energy

“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Life #Godly #Practice

“Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Being Original #Pretension

“Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage....”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Truth #Cowardice #Falsehood

“If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Gratitude #Children #Father

“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Friendship #Happiness #Enemy

“Hatred is self-punishment.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Self #Punishment #Justice

“Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Disease #Illness #Retribution

“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Freedom #People #Important

“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Devil #Persecution

“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Truth #Doubt #Curiosity

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

#Experience #Add

“No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Business #Pride #Men

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

#People #Benefits #Sin

“True repentance always involves reform.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Reform #Repentance

“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

#Names #Use #Association

“Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Keys #Moderation #Enjoyment

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

#Adversity #Safe #Littles

“Prosperity often presages adversity.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Adversity #Prosperity

“As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Law #Honor #Remedy

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

#Style #Chaste #Traits

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

#Years #Tolerance

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

#Scripture #Rules Of Life

“Obedience sums up our entire duty.”
-- Hosea Ballou

#Obedience #Duty