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(Heb.11:4)

John Newton

Died

21st December 1807

We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burdenappointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry

yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of

the morrow before we are required to bear it.

When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard onthemselves and easy on other people. But when they are not

right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highestattainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences

that He is indeed our Master.

Believers who have most knowledge, are not therefore necessarilythe most spiritual.

When we look at the ungodly, we are not to hate them - but topity them, mourn over them, and pray for them. Nor have we any

right to boast over them; for, by nature, and of ourselves, we are

no better than they.

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Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I amcontent to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to

escape from it, and with this I begin and end.

IfI ever reach Heaven I expect to find three wonders there;1st, to meet some I had not thought to see there

2nd, to miss some I had expected to see there and

3rd, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.

The religion of some people is constrained, like the cold bathwhen used, not for pleasure, but from necessity for health, into

which one goes with reluctance, and is glad when able to get out.

But religion to the true believer is like water to a fish; it is his

element; he lives in it, and could not live out of it.

The Word of God is not to be used as a lottery; nor is it designedto instruct us by shreds and scraps, which, detached from their

proper places, have no determinate import; but it is to furnish us

with just principles, right apprehensions to regulate our

judgments and affections, and thereby to influence and direct

our conduct.

My principal method for defeating error and heresy, is, byestablishing the truth.

I am not what I ought to be.I am not what I might be.

I am not what I want to be.

I am not what I hope to be.BUTBLESS GOD!

I am not what I used to be,

and by the grace of God I am what I am.

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

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If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could onlyspoil it.

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

If two angels were sent down from heaven,--one to conduct anempire, and the other to sweep a street,--they would feel no

inclination to change employments.

What Thou wilt. When Thou wilt. How Thou wilt.I

had rather speak these three sentences from my heart, in mymother-tongue, than be master of all the languages in Europe

Our sins are many, but His mercies are more: our sins are great,but His righteousness is greater: we are weak, but He is power.

Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak. Can we wish, if it were possible, to walk in a path strewed with

flowers when His was strewed with thorns?

The love I bear Christ is but a faint and feeble spark, but it is anemanation from himself: He kindled it and he keeps it alive; and

because it is his work, I trust many waters shall not quench it.

He is able to help and save to the uttermost; there I desire to castanchor, and wish you to do so likewise.

It is an invariable maxim in his kingdom, that whosoever exaltshimself, shall be abased; but he that humbles himself, shall be

exalted.

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If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is uponus, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace

sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

There are many who stumble in the noon-day, not for want oflight, but for want of eyes.

My memory is nearly gone; but I remember two things; That I ama great sinner, and that Christ is a great Saviour.

I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of theliving soon. (His last words)

Friend, remember that it is better to read 1 quote 10 times

(meditatively) than to read 10 quotes 1 time (superficially).

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