Hosea Ballou Quotes

If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

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

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of his brightness, nor the moon of her effulgence.

Rage is mental imbecility.

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

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.

The law of heaven is love.

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

If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.

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

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.

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

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

Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but because of a large dowry.

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom.

Error is always more busy than truth.

True repentance always involves reform.

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.