Quotes from ballou hosea iii

In no instance do the evangelists betray the least anxiety for fear what they relate will not be credited. Even when they pen the astonishing miracles of which they pretend to be eye witnesses, they make no pause to clear up any thing; but tell the whole as if the whole was publicly known. In a word, this history, this sacred testimony, carries its own competent evidence within itself.

It is very questionable in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it.

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

Embark on no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

O sin, how you paint your face! How you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.

Prosperity often presages adversity.

Energy, even like the biblical grain of mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.

I ask no truer image of my Heavenly Father than I find reflected in my own heart -- all loving, all forgiving.