How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
John NewtonTime, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
John NewtonBy affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
John NewtonIf we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
John NewtonThe 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.
John Newton