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• A real friendship should not fade as time passes, and should not weaken because of space separation.

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  Friendship, Real, Space

  John Newton (2009). “廿一世纪完全作人原则: The English-Traditional Chinese Page to Page Correspondence Display Edition, Useful for Learning Chinese”, p.260, Nicer Century World Publishing

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

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  Christian, Eye, Light

  John Newton (1839). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c”, p.159

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• 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.

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  Jesus, Blood, Righteousness

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.572

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• How many times has He delivered me! Yet, alas! How distrustful and ungrateful is my heart even until the present!

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  Heart, Ungrateful, My Heart

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• I once was lost, but now am found.

  John Newton

  Grace, Lost, Found

  Olney Hymns "Amazing Grace" (1779)

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

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  Art, Kings, Grace

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

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

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  Storm, Doe, Sometimes

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• 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.

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  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”

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• Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.

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  Christian, Trials, Painful

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• How sweet the name of Jesus sounds In a believer's ear! It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds, And drives away his fear.

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  Christian, Sweet, Jesus

  John Newton (1797). “Olney hymns: in three books. I. On select texts of Scripture. II. On occasional subjects. III. On the progress and changes of the spiritual life”, p.58

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• God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.

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• 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.

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  Disappointment, World, Gods Will

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 281), 1895.

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• Assurance grows by repeated conflict, by our repeated experimental proof of the Lord's power and goodness to save; when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope, and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances: and this trust, when habitual and strong, bears the name of assurance; for even assurance has degrees.

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  Strong, Names, Safety

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.190, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?

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  Humble, Men, Silence

  John Newton (1808). “The works of the rev. John Newton”, p.246

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• If two angels were to receive at the same moment a commission from God, one to go down and rule earth’s grandest empire, the other to go and sweep the streets of its meanest village, it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot, the post of ruler or the post of scavenger; for the joy of the angels lies only in obedience to God’s will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham’s bosom, or be a chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home.

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  Lying, Angel, Home

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• If our zeal is embittered by expressions of anger, invective, or scorn—we may think we are doing service of the cause of truth, when in reality we shall only bring it into discredit!

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  Reality, Thinking, Expression

  John Newton, John Cecil (1831). “The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil”, p.155

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• 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.

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  Christian, Prayer, Exercise

  John Newton, Richard Cecil (1824). “The Works of the Rev. J. Newton ...: With the Memoirs of the Author and General Remarks on His Life, Connections, and Character”, p.77

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• "What Thou wilt, when Thou wilt, how Thou wilt." I had rather speak these three sentences from my heart in my mother tongue than be master of all the languages in Europe.

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  Christian, Mother, Prayer

  John Newton, John Cecil (1831). “The works of the Rev. John Newton ...: containing, an authentic narrative, etc., letters on religious subjects, cardiphonia, discourses intended for the pulpit, sermons preached in the parish church of Olney, a review of ecclesiastical history, Olney hymns, poems, Messiah, occasional sermons, and tracts, to which are prefixed, Memoirs of his life, &c. by the Rev. John Cecil”, p.379

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• 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.

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  Spiritual, Men, Soul

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

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• God often takes a course for accomplishing His purposes directly contrary to what our narrow views would prescribe. He brings a death upon our feelings, wishes, and prospects when He is about to give us the desire of our hearts.

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  Heart, Views, Giving

  John Newton (2001). “The Voice of the Heart”, p.87, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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

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  Men, Lambs, Worship

  John Newton (1798). “Messiah : his exaltation, kingdom, and second advent”, p.250

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

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  Home, Grace, Toil

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

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• Let me endeavor to lead you out of yourself: let me invite you to look unto Jesus.

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  Jesus, Looks, Endeavor

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.585

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• 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.

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  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

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• I know not a better rule of reading the Scripture, than to read it through from beginning to end and when we have finished it once, to begin it again. We shall meet with many passages which we can make little improvement of, but not so many in the second reading as in the first, and fewer in the third than in the second: provided we pray to him who has the keys to open our understandings, and to anoint our eyes with His spiritual ointment.

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  Bible, Christian, Spiritual

  John Newton (1824). “The Works of the Rev. John Newton ...”, p.466

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