Hosea Ballou Quotes

He that is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone.

Who are you to condemn another's sin? He who condemns sin becomes part of it, espouses it.

If we started prosecuting people for sin, we’d all be in jail.

There is an expectation that we can talk about sins but no one must be identified as a sinner.

you could have forgiven my committing a sin if you hadn't feared that I had a committed a pleasure as well.

Let him who is without guilt cast the first stone. A trap. Because then he will be no longer without guilt.

They that censure, should practice. Or else let them have the first stone, and the last too.

Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh.

God judges what we tolerate as well as what we practice. Too often we put up with things we ought to put out.

He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

The sins of teachers are the teachers of sin.

Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

Judge me if you want to. And as a matter of fact, it won't even count, 'cause the only person who can judge is God.

Every person who is tempted to go astray does not deserve punishment

The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned.

Only he without sin can tell me if my means justify my ends.

It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!

Many Christians are unthinkably horrified when a real sinner is suddenly discovered among the righteous. So we remain alone with our sin, living in lies and hypocrisy...He who is alone with his sins is utterly alone.

Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.

What are these unheard of sins you condemn so much - and like so well?

Condemning others as bad or sinful is a way to feel righteous. Such a feeling is a powerful mood alteration and can become highly addictive.

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!

I know what sin is.

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.