156 Quotes by Hosea Ballou

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

Kecurigaan selalu menjadi musuh kebahagiaan.

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

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another’s place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.

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.

A mother’s love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring.

As “unkindness has no remedy at law,” let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.

As the sun’s rays will irradiate even the murky pool, and make its stagnant waters to shine like silver, so doth God’s goodness and tender mercy, towards the greatest sinner, and the blackest heart, make his own image visible there!

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature’s God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb.