Hosea Ballou Quote

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.

Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle...

Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle...

Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle...

Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity; it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle...