Pithy quotes from John Newton. The more vile we are in our own eyes, the more precious Christ will be to us. How unspeakably wonderful it is to know that all our concerns are held in those hands which bled for us.

Our sea may sometimes be stormy, but we have an infallible pilot and shall infallibly gain our port. Our work is great, our time is short, and the consequences of our labors are infinite. Hold me up, and I will be safe. Psalm 119, verse 117.

My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart and to heal the broken heart. 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.

We serve a gracious master who will overrule even our mistakes to his glory and our own advantage. Can we wish, if it were possible, to walk in a path strewed with flowers, when his path was strewed with thorns? May we sit at the foot of the cross and there learn what sin has done, what justice has done, what love has done.

Healing and wounding are equally from his hand and equally tokens of his love and care over us. They are the happiest Christians, who have the lowest thoughts of themselves, and in whose eyes Jesus is most glorious and precious.

My heart is vile, and even my prayers are sin. My soul is very sick, but my physician is infallible. How unspeakably wonderful it is to know that all our concerns are held in hands that bled for us.

Our sea may sometimes be stormy, but we have an infallible pilot and shall infallibly gain our port. Lord, save us from our golden calves. The Lord Jesus and the world that crucified him are competitors for our hearts.

The storms of our life are guided by the hands which were nailed to the cross. We have work to do in the world, more to do in the church and in our homes, but most of all, in our own hearts.

Wonderful are the effects when a crucified, glorious Savior is presented to the eye of faith. This sight destroys the love of sin. Abominations, like nests of vipers, lie quietly in us until the rod of affliction arouses them. then they hiss and show their venom.

This discovery is indeed very distressing. Yet, until it is made, we are prone to think ourselves much less vile than we really are, and cannot so heartily abhor ourselves, and repent in dust and ashes. A deep sense of indwelling sin is essential to humble living.

I have reason to praise Him for my trials, for most probably I would have been ruined without them. To see Him as He is and to be like Him, this is worth dying for and worth living for.

People do their country more service by pleading for it in prayer than by finding fault with things they have no power to alter. Prosperity may cause us to rise in the world, but affliction is needful to raise us above the world.

The babe of Bethlehem, the man who once hung dead and forsaken upon the cross, is now the Lord of glory. I have read of many wicked popes, but the worst pope I ever met with is Pope Self.

Humility is the strength and ornament of every other grace and the proper soil wherein they grow. To behold the glory and the love of Jesus is the only effectual way to be conformed to His image.

Resist every temptation to doubt Christ's love as you would resist a temptation to adultery or murder.