Top 100 John Newton Sayings
#1. More of Thy presence, Lord, impart, More of Thine image let me bear; Construct Thy throne within my heart, And reign without a rival there. - John Newton
Robert J. Morgan
#2. 'Amazing Grace' is about the man who wrote 'Amazing Grace,' John Newton. It's a really great show - I have been workshopping it for a while now, actually.
Josh Young
#3. John Newton's final recorded words: My memory is nearly gone, but I remember two things: that I am a great sinner and that Christ is a great Savior.
Tony Reinke
#4. As John Newton said, if we are not getting much out of going to God in prayer, we will certainly get nothing out of staying away.
Timothy J. Keller
#5. The truly changed, truly converted, truly Christian heart can say with John Newton, I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I hope to be. Yet I can truly say, I am not what I once was. By the grace of God, I am what I am.
Mark Dever
#6. No." John Newton's eyes warmed. "One has no guarantee that the path the Lords places us on will be the easy one, Elizabeth. Obedience to His will is a glorious thing, but, aye, it has many challenges. Yet," and he smiled fully, "in the end, no one can doubt that it is the best way.
Alicia A. Willis
#7. Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.
John Newton
#8. 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.
John Newton
#9. To embrace what are called the Calvinistic doctrines was an infallible token of a humble mind.
John Newton
#11. There's a balance in my life. There's reality, and there's the part that looks really glamorous, but we're all just people in the end.
Olivia Newton-John
#12. 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.
John Newton
#13. I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
John Newton
#14. Fight each round take it on the chin. And never never never ever give in.
Olivia Newton-John
#15. I look at my cancer journey as a gift: It made me slow down and realisethe important things in life and taught me to not sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John
#16. 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.
John Newton
#17. 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.
John Newton
#18. Olivia Newton-John was our first choice to play Sandy, but she was nervous about acting, whether she would feel comfortable with us and could pull it off at all.
Randal Kleiser
#20. So dress and conduct yourself so that people who have been in your company will not recall what you had on.
John Newton
#21. I can measure the motions of bodies," Sir Isaac Newton once observed, "but I cannot measure human folly." Nor could he do so as regards his own. He was to lose
John Kenneth Galbraith
#22. 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.
John Newton
#23. How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.
John Newton
#24. I do have high standards, but I don't expect anything from anyone that I don't expect from myself.
Olivia Newton-John
#25. 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?
John Newton
#26. As for the industry, it has certainly changed. I think with all of these television shows and YouTube and the internet, you have so much less time to develop as an artist and perfect your craft. So many things today are "instant" and, that's not always a good thing.
Olivia Newton-John
#27. Professionally, when I did the Olympic games and sang for my country in Australia. It was a big moment, Sydney in 2000. It was just a brilliant moment in my life.
Olivia Newton-John
#28. 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.
John Newton
#29. 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.
John Newton
#30. I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.
Olivia Newton-John
#31. 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.
John Newton
#32. 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!
John Newton
#33. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
Olivia Newton-John
#34. Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.
John Newton
#35. "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.
John Newton
#36. All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
John Newton
#37. Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.
John Newton
#38. It feels really good to give back. I'm opening the Olivia Newton-John Cancer Wellness Centre in Australia.
Olivia Newton-John
#39. 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
#40. But by the grace of God I am what I am
John Newton
#41. 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.
John Newton
#42. I am fortunate to have the ability to lend my name to build the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne. It will be a state-of-the-art facility to help heal the whole person - body, mind and spirit.
Olivia Newton-John
#43. I want to get physical, let's get into physical, let me hear your body talk, your body talk.
Olivia Newton-John
#45. Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
John Newton
#46. 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.
John Newton
#47. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little. And you can trust them.
Olivia Newton-John
#48. My biggest mistake was my best lesson ... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.
Olivia Newton-John
#49. 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.
John Newton
#50. God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.
John Newton
#51. 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.
John Newton
#52. Singing at the Opening Ceremonies of the Sydney Olympics in 2000 was amazing and, probably the highlight of this decade is the opening of the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in my hometown of Melbourne, Australia.
Olivia Newton-John
#53. A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.
John Newton
#54. I love clothes. I don't know a woman who doesn't. But generally women are intrigued with fashion. Designers are almost making fun of us at times.
Olivia Newton-John
#55. I really love performing with an orchestra and am very excited to do so with the Kalamazoo Symphony.
Olivia Newton-John
#56. If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.
John Newton
#57. I feel so fortunate and grateful to be a survivor of breast cancer. I see it as a gift.
Olivia Newton-John
#58. A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
John Newton
#59. Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.
John Newton
#60. I live every day to its fullest extent and I don't sweat the small stuff.
Olivia Newton-John
#61. Genetically, I'm like my mum, and she looked great right up until her death in 1989.
Olivia Newton-John
#62. If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.
John Newton
#64. 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.
John Newton
#65. 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.
John Newton
#66. I would not be comfortable appearing in a country where they have permitted the destruction of such beautiful and intelligent animals.
Olivia Newton-John
#67. Breast Cancer is not necessarily a death sentence, stay strong and centered and be involved in all aspects of your treatment.
Olivia Newton-John
#68. I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind but now I see.
John Newton
#70. Self-righteousness can feed upon doctrines - as well as upon works!
John Newton
#71. Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.
John Newton
#72. 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!
John Newton
#73. Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.
Olivia Newton-John
#74. Early detection is key," she said. "And if I hadn't found my lump early, I don't know what would have been. I am still here and I want to encourage women to do that on a regular basis.
Olivia Newton-John
#75. Olivia Newton-John - Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland.
Minnie Riperton
#76. I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.
Olivia Newton-John
#77. Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
John Newton
#78. In June 1992, I discovered a lump in my breast. A subsequent mammogram, ultrasound and a needle biopsy proved negative. But my instinct said it still didn't feel right, so I had a lumpectomy. I then got the news that it was cancer.
Olivia Newton-John
#79. Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
John Newton
#80. May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
John Newton
#81. My memories are inside me - they're not things or a place - I can take them anywhere.
Olivia Newton-John
#82. Most women don't do regular breast self examinations, mainly because they are either intimidated by what they might find, or they're confused as to how to do the self exam correctly. 'Liv Aid' eliminates all of these concerns because it makes breast self exams easy to perform.
Olivia Newton-John
#83. I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.
Olivia Newton-John
#84. My wish is that all all women age 20 and above perform monthly breast self-examinations.
Olivia Newton-John
#85. We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
John Newton
#86. I feel very passionately that we need to take care of the planet and everything on it. Whether it's saving the Amazon or just being kind to those around you, we need to take care of each other and Mother Earth.
Olivia Newton-John
#87. I love to make stories out of license plates on cars about the initials and the numbers - my mum used to do that with me.
Olivia Newton-John
#88. God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
John Newton
#89. 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.
John Newton
#90. How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
John Newton
#91. Nothing I have done professionally will top the feeling I got when singing with John Farnham at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Olivia Newton-John
#92. I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
Olivia Newton-John
#93. 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
#94. 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.
John Newton
#95. Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.
John Newton
#96. 'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.
Olivia Newton-John
#97. 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.
John Newton
#98. I am not embarrassed to say that when I was at my worst I took anti-depressants because I think people need to hear that. I think if you are in a dark place where you can't pull yourself out, you may need to ask for help.
Olivia Newton-John
#99. Nature is the most beautiful thing we have. It's better than art because it's from the creator.
Olivia Newton-John
#100. It's very hard to get good songs because a lot of writers record their own; they keep the best for themselves.
Olivia Newton-John
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