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HOSEA BALLOU
American clergyman and founder of "Universalism"
(1771 - 1852)
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Theories are very thin and unsubstantial; experience only is tangible.
      - [Experience]

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice.
      - [Practice]

There is no better rule to try a doctrine by than the question, Is it merciful, or is it unmerciful? If its character is that of mercy, it has the image of Jesus, who is the way, the truth, and the life.
      - [Mercy]

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents.
      - [Fanaticism]

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all.
      - [Sin]

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.
      - [Equivocation]

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner.
      - [Unkindness]

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.
      - [Injustice]

Thy attributes, how endearing! how parental! all loving, all forgiving.
      - [God]

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect.
      - [Chance]

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.
      - [Religion]

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
      - [Charity]

True repentance also involves reform.
      - [Repentance]

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination.
      - [Sympathy]

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
      - [Contentment]

We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own.
      - [Scripture]

Weary the path that does not challenge reason. Doubt is an incentive to truth, and patient inquiry leadeth the way.
      - [Doubt]

Wisdom consists not no much in seeing as in foreseeing.
      - [Wisdom]

With regard to manner, be careful to speak in a soft, tender, kind and loving way. Even when you have occasion to rebuke, be careful to do it with manifest kindness. The effect will be incalculably better.
      - [Gentleness]

You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker.
      - [Quality]

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author.
      - Manuscript Sermons [Style]

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor.
      - Manuscript Sermons [Unkindness]

Hatred is self-punishment.
      - Manuscript--Sermons [Hatred]

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless.
      - Manuscript--Sermons [Idleness]

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit.
      - Manuscript--Sermons [Happiness]


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