Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou Blessing Copy Share Image
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou Avoidance Copy Share Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou Experience Copy Share Image
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou Energy Copy Share Image
It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. — Hosea Ballou Intellect Copy Share Image
Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. — Hosea Ballou Adversity Copy Share Image
Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. — Hosea Ballou Careful Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. — Hosea Ballou Blossom Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Beauty Copy Share Image
Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested… — Hosea Ballou Crosses Copy Share Image
The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. — Hosea Ballou Adoration Copy Share Image
It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be… — Hosea Ballou Building Copy Share Image
If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other… — Hosea Ballou Agree Copy Share Image
Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. — Hosea Ballou Benefits Copy Share Image
If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will… — Hosea Ballou Creator Copy Share Image
Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have… — Hosea Ballou Consequence Copy Share Image
Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction;… — Hosea Ballou Affliction Copy Share Image
It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one… — Hosea Ballou Blessing Copy Share Image
The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the… — Hosea Ballou Casts Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which,… — Hosea Ballou Devotion Copy Share Image
As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's… — Hosea Ballou Compassion Copy Share Image
It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born… — Hosea Ballou Born Copy Share Image
