Quotes by 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 again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.”— John Newton
“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
“Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.”— John Newton
“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
“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
“I see in this world two heaps—one of human happiness and one of misery. Now, if I can take but the smallest bit from the second heap and add to the first, I carry a point.”— John Newton
“We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.”— John Newton
“There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith.”— John Newton
“He who has not seen the evil of his own heart, can never be a good judge of the Lord's loving-kindness.”— John Newton