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We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.

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
Scriptures
Scripture
Rules
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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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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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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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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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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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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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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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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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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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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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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That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
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Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
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Experience is retrospect knowledge.
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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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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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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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