John Newton Quotes

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• We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us…
• I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in…
• This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
• Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
• Amazing grace! how sweet the sound That saved a wretch like me! I once was lost but now am found, Was blind but now i…
• I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
• God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
• If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away…
• If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other…
• Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
• I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make…
• The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as…
• A bowler can make or break a chap.
• Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to…
• God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
• Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love…
• Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures…
• I am in the land of the dying, and I am soon going to the land of the living.

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