John Newton Quotes

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

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 if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.

Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.

The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Of all people who engage in controversy, we, who are called Calvinists, are most expressly bound by our own principles to the exercise of gentleness and moderation.

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

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 see.

How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.

A bowler can make or break a chap.

To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.

Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.

Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

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 us, The Lord will provide.

What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

"What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.

Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,The fire of love supplies ;While that which often bears the name,Is self in a disguise.True zeal is merciful and mild,Can pity and forbear ;The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,And breathes revenge and war.

Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.

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 another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

I compare the troubles which we have to undergo in the course of the year to a great bundle of sticks, far too large for us to lift. But God does not require us to carry the whole at once. He mercifully unties the bundle, and gives us first one stick, which we are to carry today, and then another, which we are to carry tomorrow, and so on. This we might easily manage, if we would only take the burden appointed for us each day; but we choose to increase our troubles by carrying yesterday's stick over again today, and adding tomorrow's burden to our load, before we are required to bear it.

Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.

I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.

Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.