Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. — Hosea Ballou Energy Copy Share Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. — Hosea Ballou Experience Copy Share Image
As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou Blessing 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
There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all. — Hosea Ballou Consequence Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always… — Hosea Ballou Enemy Copy Share Image
There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the… — Hosea Ballou Companion Copy Share Image
The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it. — Hosea Ballou Consciousness Copy Share Image
That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. — Hosea Ballou Inspirational Copy Share Image
A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou Affliction Copy Share Image
Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. — Hosea Ballou Being original Copy Share Image
All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
It is what we give up, not what we lay up, that adds to our lasting store. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou Charity Copy Share Image
Attempt to teach the young but little at a time; this will be easier to impart, easier to receive, and surer to… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the… — Hosea Ballou Care Copy Share Image
Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of… — Hosea Ballou Compassion Copy Share Image
There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the… — Hosea Ballou Bees 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 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 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 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
