Hosea Ballou Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• A single bad habit will mar an otherwise faultless character, as an ink-drop soileth the pure white page.

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, White, Ink

• Education commences at the mother's knee, and every word spoken within hearsay of little children tends toward the formation of character.

  Hosea Ballou

  Family, Mom, Education

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922)", Book by Kate Louise Roberts, 2010.

• 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.

  Hosea Ballou

  Jesus, Character, Trying

• Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt.

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, Noble, Disgusting

• O sin, how you paint your face! how you flatter us poor mortals on to death! You never appear to the sinner in your true character; you make fair promises, but you never fulfil one; your tongue is smoother than oil, but the poison of asps is under your lip!

  Hosea Ballou

  Character, Oil, Promise

  Hosea Ballou (1848). “A Treatise on Atonement: In which the Finite Nature of Sin is Argued, Its Cause and Consequences as Such; the Necessity and Nature of Atonement; and Its Glorious Consequences, in the Final Reconciliation of All Men to Holiness and Happiness”, p.57

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