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