Quotes by Ballou, Hosea




Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 - June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. Hosea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, he was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to Universalism, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts. He preached at Barnard, Vermont and surrounding towns in 1801-1807; at Portsmouth, New Hampshire in 1807-1815; at Salem, Massachusetts in 1815-1817; and as pastor of the Second Universalist Church in Boston from December 1817 until his death there..

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

Ballou, Hosea on doubt
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"Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable."

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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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"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."

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"A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page."

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

Ballou, Hosea on happiness
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"Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated."

Ballou, Hosea on hatred
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"Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature."

Ballou, Hosea on nature
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"The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration."

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

Ballou, Hosea on preachers and preaching
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"Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction."

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"Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden."

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"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."

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

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

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"Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage."

Ballou, Hosea on truth
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"Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine."

Ballou, Hosea on zeal
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