Hosea Ballou Quotes

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• If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury,
  but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good.
  Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

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  Agreement, Unity, Spirit

  Hosea Ballou (1828). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; And, Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.236

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• Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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  Inspirational, Summer, Rain

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• Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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  Happiness, Happy, Real

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

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  Honesty, People, Littles

  "Christ in Literature: Being a Treasury of Choice Readings, in Prose and Verse". Book edited by J.B. Ford, p. 154, 1875.

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• All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

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  Possession, Clear, Clear Conscience

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• Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

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  Kindness, Weakness, Principles

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• Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

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  Hypocrisy

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• It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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  Funny, Beauty, Beautiful

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• Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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  Truth, Doubt, Curiosity

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• There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

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  Kindness, Needs, Said

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• A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

  Hosea Ballou

  Smile, Sunshine

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• Rage is mental imbecility.

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  Rage, Imbecility

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• It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

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  Vices, Slavery, Steps

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

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  Eye, Soul, Honest

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• If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

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  Men, Enemy, Needs

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

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  Law, Luck, Littles

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• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

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• True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

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  Sympathy, Reality, Imagination

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• Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.

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  Latter, Estates, Former

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• It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation.

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  Prayer, Humble, Generations

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• You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

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  Judging, Soul, Quality

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• Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

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  Experience, Tangible, Theory

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• Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

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  People, Dowry, Embrace

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• Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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  Devil, Persecution, Persecuted

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• 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.

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  Faith, Jesus, Real

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