Hosea Quotes

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

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

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden. ~ Hosea Ballou

One thing you think about when you do get nominated is that there is a coalition of people that think you performed okay in the role. You start to think about how much of a blessing it is to have your peers and then people outside of your peer group to say bravo. ~ Hosea Chanchez

Obedience and resignation are our personal offerings upon the altar of duty. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

Error is always more busy than truth. ~ Hosea Ballou

Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap the fruit of unfailing love, and break up your unplowed ground; for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers his righteousness on you. (Hosea 10:12) ~ Lysa TerKeurst

No one has a greater asset for his business than a man's pride in his work. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

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

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of honor. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

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

Come, let us return to the Lord; for he has torn, that he may heal us; he has stricken, and he will bind us up. HOSEA 6 : 1 ~ Francine Rivers

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

The eye is the inlet to the soul, and it is well to beware of him whose visual organs avoid your honest regard. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

Prosperity often presages adversity. ~ 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

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

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

How can there be pride in a contrite heart? Humility is the earliest fruit of religion. ~ Hosea Ballou

True repentance always involves reform. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

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

The heavens and the earth, the woods and the wayside, teem with instruction and knowledge to the curious and thoughtful. ~ Hosea Ballou

The story of Hosea and Gomer is the second most powerful picture of God's love in the Bible. Other than Christ's death, there is no greater picture of love. ~ Jud Wilhite

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 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

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible. ~ 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

That alone can be called true refinement which elevates the soul of man, purifying the manners by improving the intellect. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

Pretension almost always overdoes the original, and hence exposes itself. ~ Hosea Ballou

Doubt is the incentive to truth and inquiry leads the way. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

Eric could teach Hosea the way to call his magic. He could teach him that Eric's was the only right way, teach Hosea to do only as Eric had done and could do, and no more. But that was not what it meant to be a teacher. Hosea must grow to be all that Hosea could be, ~ Mercedes Lackey

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

There is no such thing as "best" in the world of individuals. ~ Hosea Ballou

Humanity , in the aggregate, is progressing, and philanthropy looks forward hopefully. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

The law of heaven is love. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains. ~ Hosea Ballou

Some clergymen make a motto, instead of a theme, of their texts. ~ 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

Great is repentance, because for the sake of one that truly repenteth the whole world is pardoned; as it is written (Hosea xiv. 4), 'I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely, for mine anger is turned away from him.'" It is not said, "from them," but "from him. ~ Various

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

Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness. ~ 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

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

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

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

Moderation is the key of lasting enjoyment. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

Obedience, as it regards the social relations, the rules of society, and the laws of nature and nature's God, should commence at the cradle and end only at the tomb. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

A good smile is the sunshine of wisdom. ~ 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

Prosperity seems to be scarcely safe, unless it be mixed with a little adversity. ~ Hosea Ballou

It is the nature of intellect to strive to improve in intellectual power. ~ Hosea Ballou

Falsehood is cowardice, the truth courage. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

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

But then I will win her back once again. I will lead her into the desert and speak tenderly to her there. I will return her vineyards to her and transform the Valley of Trouble into a gateway of hope. (Hosea 2:14-15 NLT) ~ Cherie Hill

Hatred is self-punishment. ~ Hosea Ballou

As gentle a man as he was, as tender as was his heart, there was nothing weak about Michael Hosea. He was the strongest-minded man Joseph had ever met. A Man like Noah. A Man like the Shepherd-king David. A man after God's own heart. ~ Francine Rivers

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

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. ~ 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

The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual path before we get some sense of the wound of the human condition, and this is precisely why not a few abandon a contemplative practice like meditation as soon as it begins to expose this wound; they move on instead to some spiritual entertainment that will maintain distraction. Perhaps this is why the weak and wounded, who know very well the vulnerability of the human condition, often have an aptitude for discovering silence and can sense the wholeness and healing that ground this wound.

There is something seductive about the contemplative path. "I am going to seduce her and lead her into the desert and speak to her heart" (Hosea 2:14), says Yahweh to Israel. It is tempting to think it is a superior path. More often, however, the seduction is to think we can use our practice of contemplation as a way to avoid facing our woundedness: if we can just go deeply enough into contemplation, we won't struggle any longer. It is common enough to find people taking a cosmetic view of contemplation, and then, after considerable time and dedication to contemplative practice, discover that they still have the same old warts and struggles they hoped contemplation would remove or hide. They think that somewhere they must have gone wrong.

Certainly there is deep conversion, healing, and unspeakable wholeness to be discovered along the contemplative path ~ Martin Laird

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side. ~ Hosea Ballou

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep. ~ 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

I have somewhere read that conscience not only sits as witness and judge within our bosoms, but also forms the prison of punishment. ~ Hosea Ballou

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

the story didn't make any sense the bible is full of these things. a lot of those old kings and leaders had many wives and concubines and Hosea the prophet was even married to a prostitute and it didn't stop him for being a holy man ~ Bob Dylan

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning. hosea 6:3 ~ A.W. Tozer

Truly we are passing through disastrous times, when we may well make our own the lamentation of the Prophet: "There is no truth, and there is no mercy, and there is no knowledge of God in the land" (Hosea 4:1). Yet in the midst of this tide of evil, the Virgin Most Merciful rises before our eyes like a rainbow, as the arbiter of peace between God and man. ~ Pope Pius X

How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it! ~ 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 to lasting enjoyment. ~ Hosea Ballou

Theory, from whatever source, is not perfect until it is reduced to practice. ~ Hosea Ballou