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“ ”We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective. Look back over the past, however, and compare what you have been brought through with your frame of mind during each successive period. Consider how wonderfully one thing has been connected with another so that what we now count as our greatest benefits are
About John Newton
John Newton (24 July 1725 – 21 December 1807) was a British slave trader who later became an abolitionist and a convert to Christianity. He came to be a clergyman and songwriter. He is known for writing the lyrics to the historical hymn, Amazing Grace.
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We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective.
Additional quotes by John Newton
We very often fail to see our present circumstances in right perspective.
Thus those who are employed in poisoning souls, generally make use of some important and beneficial truth, as a vehicle by which they convey their malignant drug into the minds of the unwary!
"Christ has taken our nature into heaven
to represent us, and has left us on earth
with his nature to represent him."
- John Newton