List of John Newton Quotes

A Bowler Can Make Or Break A Chap.

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.

I Am A Great Sinner And God Is A Great Savior

So Dress And Conduct Yourself So That People Who Have Been In Your Company Will Not Recall What You Had On.

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.

I Know Not A Better Rule Of Reading The Scripture, Than To Read It Through From Beginning To End And When We Have Finished It Once, To Begin It Again. We Shall Meet With Many Passages Which We Can Make Little Improvement Of, But Not So Many In The Second Reading As In The First, And Fewer In The Third Than In The Second: Provided We Pray To Him Who Has The Keys To Open Our Understandings, And To Anoint Our Eyes With His Spiritual Ointment.

Every Drop Of Rain Hits Its Appointed Target.

If It Were Possible For Me To Alter Any Part Of His Plan, I Could Only Spoil It.

"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.

How Many Times Has He Delivered Me! Yet, Alas! How Distrustful And Ungrateful Is My Heart Even Until The Present!

I Am Not What I Ought To Be! Ah! How Imperfect And Deficient! - I Am Not What I Wish To Be! I 'abhor What Is Evil,' And I Would 'cleave To What Is Good!' - I Am Not What I Hope To Be! Soon, Soon, I Shall Put Off Mortality: And With Mortality All Sin And Imperfection! Yet, Though I Am Not What I Ought To Be, Nor What I Wish To Be, Nor What I Hope To Be, I Can Truly Say, I Am Not What I Once Was - A Slave To Sin And Satan; And I Can Heartily Join With The Apostle, And Acknowledge; By The Grace Of God, I Am What I Am!

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!