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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
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Theory
Practice
Whatever
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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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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.
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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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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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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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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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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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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 eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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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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Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.
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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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Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage.
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There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power.
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