John Newton

Opposition has hurt its thousands. Careless popularity has slain its ten thousands.

—John Newton

The Lord does not give us our arms and regimentals only to strut about in. We must expect blows.

—John Newton

Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.

—John Newton

Once perishing in blood I lay,

Creatures no help could give,

But Jesus passed me in the way,

He saw, and bid me live.

—John Newton

That light of God’s countenance, which can pervade the walls and dissipate the gloom of a dungeon, is unspeakably preferable to all that can be enjoyed in a palace without it.

—John Newton

The Lord is my strength; yet I am prone to lean on reeds.

—John Newton

One ‘Thus saith the Lord,’ ought to have more weight and authority with us, than a thousand arguments.

—John Newton

Sovereignty is but another name for the unlimited exercise of wisdom and goodness.

—John Newton

Sooner shall a tender mother sit inattentive to her crying infant than Jesus be an unconcerned spectator of his suffering children.

—John Newton

Only when the way is rough,

And the coward flesh would start,

Let thy promise and thy love,

Cheer and animate my heart.

—John Newton

Rejoice in Christ and resist every temptation to doubt his love as you would resist a temptation to adultery or murder.

—John Newton

Reproof should be in season, in secret, and in love.

—John Newton

If our lot be so cast that we can exercise our ministry free from stripes, fines, imprisonment, and death, it is more than the Gospel has promised us.

—John Newton

The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.

—John Newton

The Scripture cannot deceive us, if rightly understood; but it may, if perverted, prove the occasion of confirming us in a mistake. The Holy Spirit cannot mislead those who are under his influence; but we may suppose that we are so, when we are not.

—John Newton

O for more of His gracious influence, which in a moment can make my wilderness-soul rejoice and blossom like the rose!

—John Newton

Nothing more habitually reconciles a child of God to the thought of death than the wearisomeness of…warfare with sin and temptation.

—John Newton

Sin cannot be hated for itself, till we have seen the malignity of it in Christ’s sufferings.

—John Newton

Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.

—John Newton

Self righteousness can feed upon doctrines, as well as upon works; and a man may have the heart of a Pharisee, while his head is stored with orthodox notions of the unworthiness of the creature, and the riches of free grace.

—John Newton

Overlong sermons… call off the thoughts from the sermon to the pudding at home that is in danger of being overboiled.

—John Newton

Oh, what manner of love, that we, who were like others by nature, should be thus distinguished by grace!

—John Newton

Self likes to do great things; but grace teaches us to do little things with a great spirit – that is, for the Lord’s sake.

—John Newton

My hope is built, not upon frames and feelings, but upon the atonement and mediation of Jesus.

—John Newton

If we could hear all that is said of us, it would not flatter us much.

—John Newton

Now may He who from the dead

Brought the Shepherd of the sheep,

JESUS CHRIST, our King and Head,

All our souls in safety keep!

—John Newton

People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.

—John Newton

People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit. I mean, from a humble consciousness that our views are upright before the Lord — and that we are simply aiming to serve him.

—John Newton

People will find fault as they please, and it is a mercy to sit loose to their opinions, and let them talk on — provided we can do it in a right spirit.

—John Newton

People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter.

—John Newton