129 Quotes by John Newton

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.

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

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.

We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.

Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.

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.

May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.

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