john newton

“ How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present! ”

“ But that we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it. ”

“ My heart is like a highway, like a city without walls or gates: nothing so false, so frivolous, so absurd, so impossible, or so horrid, but it can obtain access, and that any time, in any place. ”

“ I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am. ”

“ Another lawful use of the law is, to consult it as a rule and pattern by which to regulate our spirit and conversation. ”

“ When I see Thee as Thou art, I'll praise Thee as I ought. ”

“ But the life of this life, if I may so speak, its manifestation and exercise, is subject to great changes. ”

“ Here is the humble confidence of faith - that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost. ”

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

“ 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. ”