Hosea Ballou
14 quotes.
Quotes by Hosea Ballou
- Embark in no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
- Energy, even like the biblical grain of mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
- Falsehood is cowardice; truth is courage.
- Hatred is self-punishment.
- 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.
- Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
- Judgment is not a swift-growing plant; it requires time and culture to mature it.
- Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
- No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
- Preaching is of much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument that you can offer to the sceptic.
- Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
- The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful.
- There are few occasions when ceremony may not be easily dispensed with, but kindness, never.
- 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.