Quote

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin punishment is swift and sure to one and all.

Hosea Ballou

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Hosea Ballou
Age: 81 †
Born: 1771
Born: April 30
Died: 1852
Died: June 6
Author
Theologian
Writer
Richmond
New Hampshire
Sure
Immunity
Swift
Consequences
Punishment
Consequence
Sin

More quotes by Hosea Ballou

Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life.
Hosea Ballou
Image
That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object.
Hosea Ballou
Image
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
Hosea Ballou
Image
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Hosea Ballou
Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.
Hosea Ballou
Image
A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Prosperity often presages adversity.
Hosea Ballou
Image
We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
Hosea Ballou
Image
There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Experience is retrospect knowledge.
Hosea Ballou
Image
The eye is inlet to the soul.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Obedience sums up our entire duty.
Hosea Ballou
Image
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.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Lay silently the injuries you receive upon the altar of oblivion.
Hosea Ballou
Image
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.
Hosea Ballou
Image
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant.
Hosea Ballou