The act of divine worship is the inestimable privilege of man, the only created being who bows in humility and adoration.
Hosea BallouNever let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
Hosea BallouEnvy 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