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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
Love
Law
Heaven

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A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.
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Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
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Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
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No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example.
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It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail.
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Hatred is self-punishment.
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Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
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Purity in person and in morals is true godliness.
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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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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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Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
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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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Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
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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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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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True repentance always involves reform.
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It is in sickness that we most feel the need of that sympathy which shows how much we are dependent upon one another for our comfort, and even necessities. Thus disease, opening our eyes to the realities of life, is an indirect blessing.
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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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True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
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Error is always more busy than truth.
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