Quote of the Day (John Newton, on Where God Has Placed Us)

“It is no great matter where we are, provided that the Lord has placed us there, and that He is with us.”—Anglican minister and hymnwriter (“Amazing Grace”) John Newton, letter of August 1775, quoted in The Works of the Rev. John Newton, Late Pastor of the United Parishes of St. Mary Woolnoth and St. Mary Wool-Church-Haw, Lombard Street, London (1831)