John Newton
John Newton
John Newtonwas an English sailor, in the Royal Navy for a period, and later a captain of slave ships. He became ordained as an evangelical Anglican cleric, served Olney, Buckinghamshire for two decades, and also wrote hymns, known for "Amazing Grace" and "Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken"...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSoldier
Date of Birth24 July 1725
CountryUnited States of America
forming name
I think a lot of it is a forming of attitudes. I think, primarily, they know our name but they don't know much about us.
working-together together
All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.
feet justice may
May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.
mistake glory advantage
We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.
humble men silence
What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?
jesus looks endeavor
Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.
bible christian spiritual
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.
spiritual men grace
By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.
taken believe grace
Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.
make-or-break break bowlers
A bowler can make or break a chap.
zion cities thee
Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!
time loss years
Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
spiritual jesus discovery
Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.
mistake fall school
Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.