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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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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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True repentance always involves reform.
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There is no such thing as best in the world of individuals.
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Obedience sums up our entire duty.
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Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity.
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Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!
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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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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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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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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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Error is always more busy than truth.
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Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty and, indeed, it is a sore affliction but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure.
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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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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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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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