Zitate von John Newton

„Deine wertvolle Gnade, glücklicher Tag!
Das menschliche Wrack ist gerettet!
Ich war verloren
blind“

—  John Newton

„This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.“

—  John Newton

„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.“

—  John Newton

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

—  John Newton

Quelle: Amazing Grace

„I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)“

—  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."'

„Although my memory's fading, I remember two things very clearly: I am a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.“

—  John Newton

Quelle: Amazing Grace

„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

Variante: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Quelle: Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace

„We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed 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.“

—  John Newton

„Thou art coming to a King, large petitions with thee bring, for His grace and power are such none can ever ask too much.“

—  John Newton

Variante: Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
for His grace and pow'r are such
none can ever ask too much.

„I endeavored to renounce society, that I might avoid temptation. But it was a poor religion; so far as it prevailed, only tended to make me gloomy, stupid, unsociable, and useless.“

—  John Newton

„If you once love Him, you will study to please Him.“

—  John Newton

„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

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.

„Zeal is that pure and heavenly flame,
The fire of love supplies;
While that which often bears the name,
Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild,
Can pity and forbear;
The false is headstrong, fierce and wild,
And breathes revenge and war.“

—  John Newton, Olney Hymns

Hymn 70: True and False Zeal
Olney Hymns (1779)

„Twas grace that taught my heart to fear,
And grace my fears reliev'd;
How precious did that grace appear,
The hour I first believ'd!“

—  John Newton, Olney Hymns

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

Quelle: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 475.

„Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.“

—  John Newton

The Works of the Rev. John Newton http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=ejYIv91QlGUC&pg=PA382&lpg=PA382&dq=newton+we+must+worship+the+lamb&source=bl&ots=zNMOTpAZ3y&sig=llNL3C_qLM50GDCA9RkmkZDWuYs&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=__KXUsexDZXeoAScnoLgBg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=newton%20we%20must%20worship%20the%20lamb&f=false, Vol. 2, p. 382.

„The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,
The sun forbear to shine;
But God, who call'd me here below,
Will be forever mine.“

—  John Newton, Olney Hymns

Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace

„When we've been there ten thousand years,
Bright shining as the sun,
We've no less days to sing God's praise
Than when we'd first begun.“

—  John Newton

These lines were not written by Newton. They have often been accreted to various hymns, including "Amazing Grace", since the mid-nineteenth century.
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