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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.

Hosea Ballou

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Denunciation
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Potent
Silent
Influence
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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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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
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There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
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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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Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.
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Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one 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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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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You cannot judge by outward appearances the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
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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.
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