Great Throughts Treasury

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Hosea Ballou

American Universalist Clergyman and Theological Writer

"We must not only read the Scriptures, but we must make their rules of life our own."

"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."

"Weary the path that does not challenge. Doubt is an incentive to truth and patient inquiry leadeth the way."

"You cannot judge by outward appearances; the soul is only transparent to its Maker."