A Quote by Hosea Ballou

Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere. — © Hosea Ballou
Unless we find repose within ourselves, it is vain to seek it elsewhere.
When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.
If a man doesn't find ease in himself, 'tis in vain to seek it elsewhere.
If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.
Thou demandest what is love? It is that powerful attraction towards all that we conceive, or fear, or hope beyond ourselves, when we find within our own thoughts the chasm of an insufficient void, and seek to awaken in all things that are, a community with what we experience within ourselves.
Either still I find Some imperfection in the chosen theme, Or see of absolute accomplishment Much wanting, so much wanting, in myself, That I recoil and droop, and seek repose In listlessness from vain perplexity, Unprofitably travelling towards the grave.
The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.
State governments seek local remedies for the globally fabricated deprivations and miseries in vain - just as the individuals-by-the-decree-of-fate (read: by the impact of deregulation) seek in vain the individual solutions to the socially fabricated life problems.
The source of joy is within yourself. Unless and until you seek yourself you cannot seek God.
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.
When the heart is once won to rest in God, to repose himself on him, he will assuredly satisfy it. He will never be as water that fails; nor hath he said at any time to the seed of Jacob, "Seek ye my face in vain." If Christ be chosen for the foundation of our supply, he will not fail us.
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Look within. Within you is the hidden God. Within you is the immortal soul. Within you is the inexhaustible spiritual treasure. Within you is the ocean of bliss. Look within for the happiness which you have sought in vain.
What peace can we hope to find elsewhere if we have none within us
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