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Showing posts with label John Newton. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Newton. Show all posts
Thursday, July 24, 2025

Quote of the Day (John Newton, on the Christian’s ‘Many Difficulties He Has Had to Struggle With’)

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“The exercised and experienced Christian, by the knowledge he has gained of his own heart and the many difficulties he has had to struggle w...
Sunday, July 1, 2018

Quote of the Day (John Newton, on Love, Humility and Christ)

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“I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

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

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“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 ...
Sunday, June 19, 2011

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

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“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 tim...
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