Hosea Ballou Quotes - Page 4

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts.

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

As the sun's rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God's goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.

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.

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

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.

Hatred is self-punishment.

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear.

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.