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Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
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Richmond
New Hampshire
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Personal
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Lucid
Chaste
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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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Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.
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There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
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Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
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The law of heaven is love.
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Idleness is emptiness the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
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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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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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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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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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Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion.
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Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.
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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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Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.
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