Hosea Ballou
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"Hosea Ballou" was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer.

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No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work.

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.

Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred it the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.

A religion which requires persecution to sustain it is of the devil's propagation.

Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of little children tends towards the formation of character.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Mystery and innocence are not akin.

A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.