Hosea Ballou Quotes
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1771-1852
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.
 No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. Topics: Achievement, Business, Work | | They have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. Topics: Anger | | Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. Topics: Books | | 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. Topics: Charity, Zeal | |
| | 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. Topics: Children, Gratitude, Parents | | Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. Topics: Courage, Honesty | | Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. Topics: Good and Evil | | 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. Topics: Happiness, Joy |
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