Quotes from John Newton

A bowler can make or break a chap.

Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.

Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.

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

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.

God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.

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.

God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior

But by the grace of God I am what I am

Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!

Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

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.

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.

"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.

Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.

Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.

The spirit of prayer is the fruit and token of the Spirit of adoption.

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.

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.

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.

Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.