156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.

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.

The eye is inlet to the soul.

There is one sure criterion of judgment as to religious faith in doctrinal matters; can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice.

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.

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals.

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances.

The severest punishment suffered by a sensitive mind, for injury inflicted upon another, is the consciousness of having done it.