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
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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.
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How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.
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Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.
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To carry an umbrella without any headgear places a fellow in a social no man's land-in the category of one hurrying round to the corner shop for a bottle of stout on a rainy day at the behest of a nagging landlady.
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He was frustrated with the direction commercial software was taking and what you could accomplish with the high-ticket sales model, The evolution cycles go so much faster, and the clock speed of the industry goes much, much faster.
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Alas! though I know in theory what a Christian should be--I am still sadly deficient in practice! I am a poor creature, and see much to be ashamed of every day, and in every circumstance. Yet, though sin will distress--it cannot condemn, those who believe in Jesus!
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I am not what I ought to be; I am not what I would like to be; I am not what I hope to be. But I am not what I once was, and by the grace of God, I am what I am.
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There was a mood on campus that this was going to be the next Michigan State.
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It's the only way to go now. It's the future of software. It's inevitable.
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The midsummer sun shines but dim, The fields strive in vain to look gay; But when I am happy in Him December's as pleasant as May.
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If we seem to get no good by attempting to draw near to Him, we may be sure we will get none by keeping away from Him.
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So long as men are compassionate to such a degree that they cannot hear a fly struggling in a spider's web without emotion it can never be reasonably maintained that it is their natural impulse to wound and kill the dumb animals, or to butcher one another in what is called the field of honour.
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The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.
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By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.