Quotes & Sayings About Hosea

James Bevel could do more with young people than any human being on the face of the earth. — Hosea Williams

The deeper truth is that reform, if it is real reform, is an exercise of love. Prophecy, if it is real prophecy, is an exercise of love. Amos, Hosea, and Jeremiah employed such harsh language in criticizing the children of Israel precisely because they thought more of the people than the people thought of themselves. The prophets were in love with, were possessed by, a vision of the dignity and destiny of those they addressed. The outrageousness of sin and failure was in direct proportion to the greatness of God's intent for his people. Prophecy was always an exercise of love, never of contempt, for those to whom the prophet addressed his criticism. — Richard John Neuhaus

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. — Hosea Ballou

If we gotta fight and die for America, why should we be treated like slaves in America? — Hosea Williams

Purity in person and in morals is true godliness. — Hosea Ballou

Remember, when incited to slander, that it is only he among you who is without sin that may cast the first stone. — Hosea Ballou

We build the path as we can, rock by rock. — Hosea Williams

But man, even while he disobeys God, does not like to part with Him altogether, but would serve Him enough to soothe his own conscience, or as far as he can without parting with his sin which he loves better. On HOSEA 2:11 — Albert Barnes

Obedience sums up our entire duty. — Hosea Ballou

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. — Hosea Ballou

Experience is retrospect knowledge. — Hosea Ballou

The law of heaven is love. — Hosea Ballou

Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction. — Hosea Ballou

Reproof, especially as it relates to children, administered in all gentleness, will render the culprit not afraid, but ashamed to repeat the offence. — Hosea Ballou

It is my humble prayer that I may be of some use in my day and generation. — Hosea Ballou

To talk of luck and chance only shows how little we really know of the laws which govern cause and effect. — Hosea Ballou

It is very questionable, in my mind, how far we have the right to judge one of another, since there is born within every man the germs of both virtue and vice. The development of one or the other is contingent upon circumstances. — Hosea Ballou

Of all the ingenious mistakes into which erring man has fallen, perhaps none have been so pernicious in their consequences, or have brought so many evils into the world, as the popular opinion that the way of the transgressor is pleasant and easy. — Hosea Ballou

The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou

It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice. — Hosea Ballou

How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor! — Hosea Ballou

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. — Hosea Ballou

Hatred is self-punishment. — Hosea Ballou

Most people who commit a sin count on some personal benefit to be derived therefrom, but profanity has not even this excuse. — Hosea Ballou

Prosperity is very liable to bring pride among the other goods with which it endows an individual; it is then that prosperity costs too dear. — Hosea Ballou

The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration. — Hosea Ballou

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

Between the humble and contrite heart and the majesty of Heaven there are no barriers; the only password is prayer. — Hosea Ballou

Be more careful of your conscience than of your estate. The latter can be bought and sold; the former never. — Hosea Ballou

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic. — Hosea Ballou

There is no immunity from the consequences of sin; punishment is swift and sure to one and all. — Hosea Ballou

A chaste and lucid style is indicative of the same personal traits in the author. — Hosea Ballou

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. — Hosea Ballou

There is no doubt that religious fanatics have done more to prejudice the cause they affect to advocate than have its opponents. — Hosea Ballou

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. — Hosea Ballou

If our Creator has so bountifully provided for our existence here, which is but momentary, and for our temporal wants, which will soon be forgotten, how much more must He have done for our enjoyment in the everlasting world? — Hosea Ballou

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age. — Hosea Ballou

Not the least misfortune in a prominent falsehood is the fact that tradition is apt to repeat it for truth. — Hosea Ballou

Few things in this world more trouble people than poverty, or the fear of poverty; and, indeed, it is a sore affliction; but, like all other ills that flesh is heir to, it has its antidote, its reliable remedy. The judicious application of industry, prudence and temperance is a certain cure. — Hosea Ballou

All our possessions are as nothing compared to health, strength, and a clear conscience. — Hosea Ballou

It is the goodly outside that sin puts on which tempteth to destruction. It has been said that sin is like the bee, with honey in its mouth, but a sting in its tail. — Hosea Ballou

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation. — Hosea Ballou

Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock of sin, a fluid so subtle that nothing but the fire of divine love can purge it from the soul. — Hosea Ballou

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable. — Hosea Ballou

Tears of joy are like the summer rain drops pierced by sunbeams. — Hosea Ballou

Our blessings are the least heeded, because the most common events of life. — Hosea Ballou

Real happiness is cheap enough, yet how dearly we pay for its counterfeit. — Hosea Ballou

Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they give a proper direction to devotion, at the same time make a wise and profitable improvement of his social feelings. — Hosea Ballou

Rage is mental imbecility. — Hosea Ballou

Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the disobedient reformed, and the faithful encouraged. — Hosea Ballou

God's Love EXPLANATION: Just as Hosea went after his unfaithful wife to bring her back, so the Lord pursues us with his love. His love is tender, loyal, unchanging, and undying. No matter what, God still loves us. IMPORTANCE: Have you forgotten God and become disloyal to him? Don't let prosperity diminish your love for him or let success blind you to your need for his love. Restoration EXPLANATION: Although God will discipline his people for sin, he encourages and restores those who have repented. True repentance opens the way to a new beginning. God forgives and restores. IMPORTANCE: There is still hope for those who turn back to God. No loyalty, achievement, or honor can be compared to loving him. Turn to the Lord while the offer is still good. No matter how far you have strayed, God is willing to forgive you. — Anonymous

Hypocrisy is oftenest clothed in the garb of religion. — Hosea Ballou

I worked with James Orange and Hosea Williams as a teenager, and he's portrayed in the movie by Wendell Pierce. So, for me to be able to come in, 20 years after working with them as a teenager, and to portray Reverend James Orange in 'Selma' is mind-blowing. — Omar Dorsey

That kind of discipline whose pungent severity is in the manifestations of paternal love, compassion, and tenderness is the most sure of its object. — Hosea Ballou

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. — Hosea Ballou

Moderation is the key to lasting enjoyment. — Hosea Ballou

Error is always more busy than truth. — Hosea Ballou

Take words with you and return to the LORD. Say to him: "Forgive all our sins and receive us graciously, that we may offer the fruit of our lips." HOSEA 14: 2 — Anne Graham Lotz

Faith, in order to be genuine and of any real value, must be the offspring of that divine love which Jesus manifested when He prayed for His enemies on the cross. — Hosea Ballou

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. — Hosea Ballou

The prophets Hosea, Isaiah, and Jeremiah, for example, often used the metaphors of adultery and prostitution to indict those they accused of being "unfaithful" to God's covenant. — Elaine Pagels

No outward change need trouble him who is inwardly serene. — Hosea Ballou

Doubt that creed which you cannot reduce to practice. — Hosea Ballou

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. — Hosea Ballou

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

There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love. — Hosea Ballou

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. — Hosea Ballou

Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou

His providences, if duly observed, promote holiness by stopping up our way to sin. O, if men would but note the designs of God in his preventive providences, how useful would it be to keep them upright and holy in their ways! For why is it that the Lord so often hedges up our way with thorns, as it is in Hosea ii. 6, but that we should not find our paths to sin? — John Flavel

My dream is to continue to be an artist who gets to be different individuals from different walks of life. — Hosea Chanchez

Idleness is emptiness; the tree in which the sap is stagnant, remains fruitless. — Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — Hosea Ballou

I never really know when anyone is nominated for anything; I just know when people win. I don't even know how the submission process works. — Hosea Chanchez

Never be so brief as to become obscure. — Hosea Ballou

It is vain to trust in wrong; it is like erecting a building upon a frail foundation, and which will directly be sure to topple over. — Hosea Ballou

Before the coming of Jesus Christ, men fled away from God and, being attached to the earth, refused to unite themselves to their Creator. But the loving God has drawn them to Himself by the bonds of love, as He promised by the prophet Osee [Hosea]: "I will draw them with the cords of Adam, with the bonds of love" (11:4). These bonds are the benefits, the lights, the calls to His love, the promises of Paradise which He makes to us, but above all, the gift which He has bestowed upon us of Jesus Christ in the Sacrifice of the Cross and in the Sacrament of the Altar ... — Alphonsus Liguori

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! — Hosea Ballou

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book. — Hosea Ballou

There is no such things as 'best' in the world of individuals. — Hosea Ballou

Self-respect is the best of all. — Hosea Ballou

Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation. — Hosea Ballou

There is nothing that needs to be said in an unkind manner. — Hosea Ballou

True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. — Hosea Ballou

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others. — Hosea Ballou

Prosperity often presages adversity. — Hosea Ballou

Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue. — Hosea Ballou

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

Hosea 6:3 Let us acknowledge the Lord; let us press on to acknowledge him. As surely as the sun rises, he will appear; he will come to us like the winter rains, like the spring rains that water the earth. — Bible. New International Version

No reproof or denunciation is so potent as the silent influence of a good example. — Hosea Ballou

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

A mother's love, in a degree, sanctifies the most worthless offspring. — Hosea Ballou

The goodness of God to mankind is no less evinced in the chastisement with which He corrects His children than in the smiles of His providence; for the Lord will not cast off forever, but though He cause grief, yet will He have compassion according to the multitude of His mercies. — Hosea Ballou

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom. — Hosea Ballou

Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom, as honor follows a good life. — Hosea Ballou

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

In my book, The Sins of Scripture, I traced the development of tribal religion, which included ideas like God's killing the Egyptians because they hated the chosen people. Then a God of love finally appears in the Book of Hosea, about the 8th century. A God of justice appears in the Book of Amos in the late 8th century or early 7th century. — John Shelby Spong

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment. — Hosea Ballou

God through Prophet Hosea is explaining to us reasons for destructions, calamities, failures and devastations among the people of God. That reason is not seen in demonic activities nor is it seen in prevailing economic situations of the land — Sunday Adelaja

A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future. — Hosea Ballou