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The law of heaven is love.

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
Law
Heaven
Love

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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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It is easy to be beautiful it is difficult to appear so.
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Self-respect is the best of all.
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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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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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How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
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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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Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers the only password is prayer.
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All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience.
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Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself.
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Envy may justly be called the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul.
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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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Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.
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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
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Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.
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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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Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion.
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The eye is inlet to the soul.
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