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
“Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.”
topics: Character
“There is no such things as "best" in the world of individuals.”
topics: Character
“Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.”
“If gratitude is due from children to their earthly parent, how much more is the gratitude of the great family of men due to our father in heaven.”
“Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.”
“The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.”
topics: Government
“Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.”
topics: Happiness
“Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams.”
“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.”
“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.