Top 80 John Newton Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— John Newton

2. “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

3. “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

4. “I am a great Sinner and God is a great Savior.”

— John Newton

5. “May we sit at the foot of the cross; and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.”

— John Newton

6. “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

7. “I once was lost but now I’m found, was blind but now I see.”

— John Newton

8. “When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is, that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Saviour. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

10. “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

11. “All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.”

— John Newton

12. “But by the grace of God I am what I am.”

— John Newton

13. “Christ has taken our nature into Heaven to represent us; and has left us on earth, with His nature, to represent Him.”

— John Newton

14. “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

15. “Glorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God!”

— John Newton

16. “My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.”

— John Newton

17. “I make it a rule of Christian duty never to go to a place where there is not room for my Master as well as myself.”

— John Newton

18. “The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

20. “Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day; Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years.”

— John Newton

21. “If two angels were sent down from heaven, – one to conduct an empire, and the other to sweep a street, – they would feel no inclination to change employments.”

— John Newton

22. “When people are right with God, they are apt to be hard on themselves and easy on other people. But when they are not right with God, they are easy on themselves and hard on others.”

— John Newton

23. “God works powerfully, but for the most part gently and gradually.”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

25. “Every drop of rain hits its appointed target.”

— John Newton

26. “Zeal without knowledge is like expedition to a man in the dark.”

— John Newton

27. “Though troubles assail And dangers affright, Though friends should all fail And foes all unite; Yet one thing secures us, Whatever betide, The scripture assures us, The Lord will provide.”

— John Newton

28. “If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.”

— John Newton

29. “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!”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

31. “I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.”

— John Newton

32. “Our work is great; our time is short; the consequences of our labors are infinite.”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

34. “How unspeakably wonderful to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.”

— John Newton

35. “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!”

— John Newton

36. “A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one; and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.”

— John Newton

37. “We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage.”

— John Newton

38. “By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.”

— John Newton

39. “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.”

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

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

— John Newton

42. “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

43. “Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.”

— John Newton

44. “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

45. “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

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

— John Newton

47. “Here is the humble confidence of faith – that what God begins shall not miscarry and those whom He leads shall not be lost.”

— John Newton

48. “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?”

— John Newton

49. “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

50. “I began to understand the security of the covenant of grace, and to expect to be preserved, not by my own power and holiness, but by the mighty power and promise of God, through faith in an unchangeable Savior.”

— John Newton