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

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


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



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Brevity and conciseness are the parents of correction.



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



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