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“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”
― John Newton

“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

“I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)”
― John Newton

“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.”
― John Newton

“God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

“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.”
― John Newton, Amazing Grace

“Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.”
― John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

“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.”
― John Newton

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

“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 from Him.”
― John Newton

“If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.”
― John Newton

“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 me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.”
― John Newton

“You have liberty to cast all your cares upon him who cares for you. By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes his glory to pass before the soul that seeks him — you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort, than by a day or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most studious perusal of many folios.”
― John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

“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 May.”
― John Newton

“How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.”
― John Newton

“We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.”
― John Newton, Letters of John Newton

“It is a great thing to die; and, when flesh and a heart fail, to have God for the strength of our hearts, and our portion forever. I know whom I have believed, and he is able to keep that which I have committed against that great day. Hence forth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the lord, the righteous judge, shall give me that day.”
― John Newton

“I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.”
― John Newton

“Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.”
― John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

“But though my disease is grievous, it is not desperate; I have a gracious and infallible Physician. I shall not die — but live, and declare the works of the Lord.”
― John Newton, Select Letters of John Newton

“Those whom [the Lord] teaches, are always increasing in knowledge, both of themselves and of him. The heart is deep, and, like Ezekiel's vision, presents so many chambers of imagery, one within another, that it requires time to get a considerable acquaintance with it, and we shall never know it thoroughly. It is now more than twenty-eight years since the Lord began to open mine to my own view; and from that time to this, almost every day has discovered to me something which until then was unobserved; and the farther I go, the more I seem convinced that I have entered but a little way. A person who travels in some parts of Derbyshire may easily be satisfied that the country is cavernous; but how large, how deep, how numerous the caverns may be, which are hidden from us by the surface of the ground, and what is contained in them—are questions which our most discerning inquirers cannot fully answer…
And if our own hearts are beyond our comprehension, how much more incomprehensible is the heart of Jesus! If sin abounds in us—grace and love superabound in him! His ways and thoughts are higher than ours, as the heavens are higher than the earth; his love has a height, and depth, and length, and breadth, which passes all knowledge! The riches of his grace are unsearchable riches! Eph. 3:8, Eph. 3:18, Eph. 3:19. All that we have received or can receive from him, or know of him in this life, compared with what he is in himself, or what he has for us—is but as the drop of a bucket—compared with the ocean; or a single ray of light—compared with the sun. The waters of the sanctuary flow to us at first almost ankle deep—so graciously does the Lord condescend to our weakness; but they rise as we advance, and constrain us to cry out, with the Apostle, O the depth! We find before us, as Dr. Watts beautifully expresses it,
A sea of love and grace unknown,
Without a bottom or a shore!”
― John Newton

“…Though we can fall of ourselves, we cannot rise without His help.”
― John Newton, Cardiphonia or the Utterance of the Heart

“Who is there who speaks and it happens—unless the Lord has ordained it?" Lamentations 3:37”
― John Newton, The Letters of John Newton

“Safely through another week,   GOD has brought us on our way,   Let us now a blessing seek   On th' approaching sabbath-day:”
― John Newton, Olney Hymns

“Here is the humble confidence of faith - that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost.”
― John Newton

“John Newton was born in London on July 24, 1725,”
― John Newton, Out of the Depths

“rooted in incidents that at the time
seemed insignificant.”
― John Newton, Out of the Depths

“understood the necessity of religion as a means of escaping hell, but I loved sin and was unwilling to forsake it.”
― John Newton, Out of the Depths

“I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be and I am not the man I hope to be, but, by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.”
― John Newton

“The world's esteem is but a bribe, to buy their peace you sell your own.”
― John Newton