Quotes by John Newton

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.

— John Newton

Wisdom

There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment: but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.

— John Newton

Life

Then let us earnest be, And never faint in prayer; He loves our importunity, And makes our cause His care.

— John Newton

Wisdom

I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct tendency to kill a worldly, trifling spirit, and to draw down a Divine blessing upon all our concerns, compose differences, and enkindle (at least maintain) the flames of Divine love amongst brethren.

— John Newton

Love

The religion of some people is constrained; like the cold bath when it is 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.

— John Newton

Wisdom