John Newton — Letters and memoir tradition (Grace Gems excerpts)

On the other hand, how readily our Lord received sinners, notorious sinners, who were vile to a proverb, appears from the remarkable account given by St. Luke of a woman whose character had been so infamous, that the Pha…

Others are first prompted to hear the Gospel from no higher motive than curiosity; but going as mere spectators, they find themselves retained as parties unawares. The word of God, powerful and penetrating as a two-edged…

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.

Sin is the sickness of the soul, in itself mortal and incurable, as to any power in heaven or earth but that of the Lord Jesus only. But he is the great, the infallible Physician.

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.

True zeal is merciful and mild, can pity and forbear; the false is headstrong, fierce and wild, and breathes revenge and war.