Quote of the Day (John Newton, on Christians “Like the Oak”)

“A Christian is not of hasty growth, like a mushroom, but rather like the oak, the progress of which is hardly perceptible, but which in time becomes a great deep-rooted tree.”--Anglican minister and composer John Newton, letter of June 20, 1776, in The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Rector of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Woolchurch-Haw, Lombard Street, London, to Which Are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life by the Rev. R. Cecil (1853)