Hosea Ballou Quotes
d. 1852 United States
Hosea Ballou (30 April 1771 – 7 June 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.
Also known as: Ballou, Hosea
Random Hosea Ballou quote
10 quotes
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
Edge-Tools of Speech (1886)
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearsay of little children tends towards the formation of character.
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith in doctrinal matters. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.
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.
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world?
Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou (1854)