Top 84 John Newton Quotes
#1. Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
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#2. The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire; as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
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#3. To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.
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#5. Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
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#6. I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
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#7. As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.
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#8. 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.
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#9. So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
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#10. 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.
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#11. How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.
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#12. 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?
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#13. From the time we know the Lord, and are bound to him by the cords of love and gratitude - the two chief points we should have in our view, I apprehend, are, to maintain communion with him in our own souls, and to glorify him in the sight of men.
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#14. How 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.
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#15. A secret dependence upon our prayers, tears, resolutions, repentance and endeavors, prevents us from looking solely and simply to the Savior, so as to ground our whole hope for acceptance upon his obedience unto death, and his whole mediation.
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#16. Thus those who are employed in poisoning souls, generally make use of some important and beneficial truth, as a vehicle by which they convey their malignant drug into the minds of the unwary!
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#17. Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
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#18. "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.
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#19. All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
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#20. Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
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#21. 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.
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#22. But by the grace of God I am what I am
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#23. 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.
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#24. Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
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#25. The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.
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#26. Thus the Lord, by pain, sickness, and disappointments, by breaking our cisterns and withering our gourds - weakens our attachment to this world, and makes the thought of leaving it, more easy and more desirable.
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#27. God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
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#28. 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.
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#29. A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
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#30. If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
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#31. A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
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#32. Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
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#33. If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.
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#34. God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.
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#35. 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.
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#36. I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
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#37. Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines - as well as upon works!
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#38. Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.
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#39. If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn - we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!
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#40. Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
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#41. Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
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#42. May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
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#43. We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
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#44. God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
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#45. 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.
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#46. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
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#47. Poison is seldom taken in the gross; but, if mingled with food, the mischief is not suspected until it is discovered by the effect.
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#48. 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 escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
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#49. Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
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#50. 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.
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#51. O my Savior, Shield, and Sun, Shepherd, Brother, Husband, Friend, Every precious name in one; I will love thee without end.
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#52. Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.
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#53. I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior
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#54. A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher
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#55. 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.
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#56. 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.
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#57. 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.
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#58. 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.
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#59. 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.
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#60. 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.
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#61. Safely through another week, GOD has brought us on our way, Let us now a blessing seek On th' approaching sabbath-day:
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#62. How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!
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#63. 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 a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.
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#64. Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
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#65. 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
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#66. I began to understand the security of the covenant of grace, and to expect to be preserved, not by my own power and holiness, but by the mighty power and promise of God, through faith in an unchangeable Savior.
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#67. 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.
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#68. 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.
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#69. By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.
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#70. The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
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#71. 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.
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#72. The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are likewise more illustrated by the multiplied pardons He bestows upon his people - than if they needed no forgiveness at all.
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#73. 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.
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#74. 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.
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#75. Savior, if of Zion's city I through grace a member am; Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in thy name Fading is the worldling's pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys and lasting treasure, None but Zion's children know.
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#76. If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are ... exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.
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#77. Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.
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#78. the chief and grand means of edification, without which all other helps will disappoint us, and prove like clouds without water - are the Bible and prayer - the Word of grace and the Throne of grace.
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#79. My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
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#80. It is indeed natural to us to wish and to plan, and it is merciful in the Lord to disappoint our plans, and to cross our wishes. For we cannot be safe, much less happy, but in proportion as we are weaned from our own wills, and made simply desirous of being directed by his guidance.
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#81. There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want of light, but for want of eyes.
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#83. We are engaged in a good cause, fight under a good Captain, the victory is sure beforehand, and the prize is a crown - a crown of eternal life.
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#84. We judge things by their present appearances, but the Lord sees them in their consequences.
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