Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way. — Hosea Ballou Self doubt Copy Share Image
With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to… — Hosea Ballou Be careful Copy Share Image
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. — Hosea Ballou Add Copy Share Image
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou Books Copy Share Image
Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. — Hosea Ballou Clergymen Copy Share Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou Experience 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
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is...always an enemy to happiness. — Hosea Ballou Being trusted Copy Share Image
It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. — Hosea Ballou Generations Copy Share Image
Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. — Hosea Ballou Conditions Copy Share Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou Benevolence Copy Share Image
O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner… — Hosea Ballou Character Copy Share Image
A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. — Hosea Ballou Children 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
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou Avoidance Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Being original Copy Share Image
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou Enough Copy Share Image
I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of… — Hosea Ballou Bosoms Copy Share Image
Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou Energy Copy Share Image
