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If we venture beyond the pale of Scripture, we are...exposed to all the illusions of imagination and enthusiasm.

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John Newton
Age: 82 †
Born: 1725
Born: July 24
Died: 1807
Died: December 21
Abolitionist
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London
England
John Henry Newton
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The art of spreading rumors may be compared to the art of pin-making. There is usually some truth, which I call the wire as this passes from hand to hand, one gives it a polish, another a point, others make and put on the head, and at last the pin is completed.
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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.
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Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength.
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But by the grace of God I am what I am
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A soul disengaged from the world is a heavenly one and then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
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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.
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I am still in the land of the dying I shall be in the land of the living soon. (his last words)
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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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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.
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I once was lost, but now am found.
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Time, by moments, steals away, First the hour, and then the day Small the daily loss appears, Yet it soon amounts to years
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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
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My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
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God sometimes does His work with gentle drizzle, not storms.
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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.
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Though the island of Great Britain exhibits but a small spot upon the map of the globe, it makes a splendid appearance in the history of mankind, and for a long space has been signally under the protection of God and a seat of peace, liberty and truth.
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The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
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