Hosea Ballou Quotes

My past life is abundantly full of God's mercy, and, above all sin, stands the forgiving love of the Crucified.

When the Lord Jesus Christ gives a man remission of sins, He also gives him repentance.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.

Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.

None are ruined by the justice of God but those that hate to be reformed by the grace of God.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

However corrupt our hearts, and however wicked our past lives, there is hope for us in the Gospel.

Only the supernatural love of God through changed lives can solve the problems that we face in our world.

The Lord saved my soul.

I know that God is good, and he saved me from hell and damnation.

For me, it is one of the 'signs of the times' that the idea of God's mercy is becoming increasingly central and dominant.

The sinner who suddenly realizes God's love for him and then looks at his rejection of that love feels a loss similar to the death of a loved one. A deep void is created in the soul and a loneliness akin to the agony of death.

None are so sinful that they cannot find strength, purity, and righteousness in Jesus, who died for them.

Shine Son of glory, and my sinnes are goneLike twinkling Starres before the rising Sunne.

The sinner is at the heart of Christianity. No one is as competent as the sinner in matters of Christianity. No one, except a saint.

Think not of the sinner or the greatness of his sin, but think of the greatness of the Savior!

I am fallen, flawed and imperfect. Yet drenched in the grace and mercy that is found in Jesus Christ, there is strength

The offspring of the woman, Jesus Christ, came into the world to save women who have dethroned God, taken His place, defined personhood as tissue, and willed the death of their own child. It can't be reversed, but it can be forgiven. That is why Christ died.

Come as you are. If you are the blackest soul out of hell, trust Christ, and that act of trust shall make you clean.

Pardon comes not to the soul alone; or rather, Christ comes not to the soul with pardon only! It is that which He opens the door and enters by, but He comes with a Spirit of life and power.

It is only the Lord who is able to give [unbelievers] repentance and recover them out of Satan's snare.

The same hand that stilled the seas stills your guilt. The same hand that cleansed the Temple cleanses your heart. The hand is the hand of God. The nail is the nail of God. And as the hands of Jesus opened for the nail, the doors of heaven opened for you.

When God forgives a sinner who humbly confesses his sin, the devil loses his dominion over the heart he had taken.

When I look to my guiltiness, I see that my salvation is one of our Saviour's greatest miracles, either in heaven or earth.