1771-1852, American Theologian, Founder of ''Universalism''
A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
Hosea Ballou – [Habit]
Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.
Hosea Ballou – [Brevity]
Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.
Hosea Ballou – [Nature]
Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.
Hosea Ballou – [Doubt]
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.
Hosea Ballou – [Example]
Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
Hosea Ballou – [Exaggeration]
Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
Hosea Ballou – [Truth]
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Hosea Ballou – [Hatred]
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea Ballou – [Zeal]
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 – [Preachers and Preaching]
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Hosea Ballou – [Happiness]
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 – [Suspicion]
Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
Hosea Ballou – [Tears]
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
Hosea Ballou – [Praise]
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]
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou – [Theory]
Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
Hosea Ballou – [Burdens]