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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.
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Embark in no enterprise which you cannot submit to the test of prayer.
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The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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There is one court whose "findings" are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast.
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Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty.
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Energy, even like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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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.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent one upon another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer.
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A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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A careless and blasphemous use of the name of the Divine Being is not only sinful, but it is also prima facie evidence of vulgar associations.
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O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!
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To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never.
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Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy.
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Humanity, in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully.
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You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.
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Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone.
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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.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
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Thy attributes, how endearing! how parental! all loving, all forgiving.
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Joy is like restless day; but peace divine Like quiet night; Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine Through Peace to Light.
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Hosea Ballou
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Born:
April 30, 1771
Died:
June 6, 1852
(aged 81)
Bio:
Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. He has been called one of the fathers of American Universalism.
Known for:
A treatise on atonement (1805)
Voice to Universalists (1849)
A series [of] lecture sermons (1818)
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