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25 quotes by Hosea Ballou

Hosea Ballou Born (1771-04-30)April 30, 1771 Richmond, New Hampshire, US Died June 6, 1852(1852-06-06) (aged 81) Boston, Massachusetts, US Religion Universalist Hosea Ballou (April 30, 1771 – June 7, 1852) was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.

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

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Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

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Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.

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Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.

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

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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.

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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.

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Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

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