How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
John NewtonI 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.
John NewtonA soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
John NewtonHow Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.
John Newton