John Newton Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

  John Newton

  Grace, World, Want

• 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.

  John Newton

  Sweet, Grace, Sound

  Olney Hymns "Amazing Grace" (1779)

• Whoever is truly humbled — will not be easily angry, nor harsh or critical of others. He will be compassionate and tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing that if there is a difference — it is grace alone which has made it! He knows that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart. And under all trials and afflictions — he will look to the hand of the Lord, and lay his mouth in the dust, acknowledging that he suffers much less than his iniquities have deserved.

  John Newton

  Heart, Knowing, Dust

• 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

  Art, Kings, Grace

  John Newton, William Cowper (1856). “Olney Hymns: In Three Parts”, p.48

• How Sweet the name of Jesus... the rock on which I build, my shield and hiding place, my never failing treasury, filled with boundless stores of grace.

  John Newton

  Sweet, Jesus, Rocks

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.128

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

  John Newton

  Prayer, Eye, Grace

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.272

• The Law was given by Moses; the moral law, to discover the extent and abounding sin; the ceremonial law, to point out, by typical sacrifices and ablutions, the way in which forgiveness was to be sought and obtained. But grace, to relieve us from the condemnation of the one, and truth answerable to the types and shadows of the other, came by Jesus Christ.

  John Newton

  Christian, Jesus, Sacrifice

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.227

• 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.

  John Newton

  Christian, Grace, Suffering

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1831). “The Select Works of the Rev. John Newton: ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life & C”

• Through many dangers, toils and snares, I have already come; 'Tis grace has brought me safe thus far, And grace will lead me home.

  John Newton

  Home, Grace, Toil

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.123

• I once was lost, but now am found.

  John Newton

  Grace, Lost, Found

  Olney Hymns "Amazing Grace" (1779)

• But by the grace of God I am what I am

  John Newton

  Grace, God's Grace, I Am What I Am

• 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, I shall 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

  Evil, Imperfection, Grace

  The Christian Spectator, Volume 3 (p. 186), 1821; later quoted in "The Christian Pioneer" edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks (p. 84), 1856.

• Not only the guilt, but the love of sin, and its dominion, are taken away, subdued by grace, and cordially renounced by the believing pardoned sinner.

  John Newton

  Believe, Taken, Grace

  John Newton (1798). “Messiah: Fifty Expository Discourses, on the Series of Scriptural Passages, which Form the Subject of the Celebrated Oratorio of Handel : Preached in the Years 1784 and 1785, in the Parish Church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard-Street”, p.180

• By one hour's intimate access to the throne of grace, where the Lord causes His glory to pass before the soul that seeks Him you may acquire more true spiritual knowledge and comfort than a day's or a week's converse with the best of men, or the most.

  John Newton

  Spiritual, Men, Soul

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.406

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