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John Newton
Geburtstag: 24. Juli 1725
Todesdatum: 21. Dezember 1807
Andere Namen:جون نيوتن, জন নিউটন
John Henry Newton, Jr. war ein englischer Verfasser geistlicher Lieder. Vorher war er Sklavenhändler gewesen, hatte aber 1748 ein Bekehrungserlebnis und sprach sich danach gegen die Sklaverei aus. Als Priester gründete er die Gemeinschaft der Clapham Saints, eine christliche Gruppe politisch einflussreicher Anglikaner um William Wilberforce, die einen maßgeblichen Einfluss auf die Abschaffung der Sklaverei im Vereinigten Königreich hatte.
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Zitate John Newton
„I am not what I ought to be — ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be — I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! I am not what I hope to be — soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was; a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, "By the grace of God I am what I am."“
— John Newton
As quoted in The Christian Pioneer (1856) edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks, p. 84. Also in The Christian Spectator, vol. 3 (1821), p. 186 http://books.google.com/books?id=mv4oAAAAYAAJ&dq=ah%2C%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q=ah,%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&f=false
Often paraphrased as I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be, and I am not the man I hope to be, but by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be."'
„Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)
That sav'd a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.“
— John Newton, Amazing Grace
Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace
„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
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 475.
„Show me what I have to do,
Every hour my strength renew;
Let me live a life of faith,
Let me die Thy people's death.“
— John Newton
Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 266.