John Newton
English clergyman, hymn writer and former slave-ship captain, 1725-1807
7 quotes.
Quotes by John Newton
- A grain of living faith, though small as a mustard-seed, is worth a thousand worlds.
- If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
- If two angels were sent down from heaven, one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, they would feel no inclination to change employments.
- Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it; and with this I begin and end.
- My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
- Remember the growth of a believer is not like a mushroom, but like an oak, which increases slowly indeed, but surely.
- There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment, but there is no such a word in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the way of God.