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Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.

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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Practice
Whatever
Perfect
Reduced
Source
Theory

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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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The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
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Prosperity often presages adversity.
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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
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A true religious instinct never deprived man of one single joy mournful faces and a sombre aspect are the conventional affectations of the weak-minded.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.
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Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.
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Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings.
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