Inspirational Quotes by Hosea Ballou
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within the hearing of children tends toward the formation of character.”
topics: learning
“Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way.”
“There is one inevitable criterion of judgment touching religious faith. Can you reduce it to practice? If not, have none of it.”
topics: Religion
“Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation.”
topics: Religion
“Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.”
topics: Reasoning
“It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so.”
“Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.”
“Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.”
topics: Perseverance
“Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.”
“Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth.”
topics: Lying
“There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.”
topics: Lying
“As unkindness has no remedy at law, let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.”
topics: Kindness
“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”
“Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.”
topics: Lying
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Hosea Ballou was an American Universalist clergyman and theological writer. osea Ballou was born in Richmond, New Hampshire, to a family of Huguenot origin. The son of Maturin Ballou, a Baptist minister, he was self-educated, and devoted himself early on to the ministry. In 1789 he converted to Universalism, and in 1794 became a pastor of a congregation in Dana, Massachusetts.
He founded and edited The Universalist Magazine (1819 -- later called The Trumpet), and The Universalist Expositor (1831 -- later The Universalist Quarterly Review), and wrote about 10,000 sermons as well as many hymns, essays and polemic theological works. He is best known for Notes on the Parables (1804), A Treatise on Atonement (1805) and Examination of the Doctrine of a Future Retribution (1834). These works mark him as the principal American expositor of Universalism.