Quotes from Hosea Ballou

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Never be so brief as to become obscure.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Obedience sums up our entire duty.

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

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.

God's glowing covenant.

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.

I know of no fact on which Jesus called the people to rest their faith, that they could not as easily judge of, through the medium of their senses as of any facts in nature.

Experience is retrospect knowledge.

A revelation from God, if it were written only in the Hebrew or Greek, would be considered of sufficient value to recompense the labor of learning the language.

A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

The evidences of our religion are like the religion itself, infinitely superior to any thing ever contrived by human wisdom. And it is an opinion in which I am the more confirmed, the more I examine it, that if the wisest set of philosophers which ever lived on earth had been a council to contrive a method by which Christianity could have been perpetuated in the world, that scheme which they would have projected, would of itself defeated the object.

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect.

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.