John Newton Quotes

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

A religious life is a struggle and not a hymn.

Affliction teacheth a wicked person sometime to pray; prosperity never.

The more the flesh is wasted by affliction, so much more is the Spirit strengthened by inward grace.

A church should be a camp of soldiers, not an hospital of invalids. But there is exceedingly much difference between what ought be and what is, and consequently many of God's people are in so sad a state that the very fittest prayer for them is for revival.

Affliction is a sort of moral gymnasium in which the disciples of Christ are trained to robust exercise, hardy exertion, and severe conflict.

Prayer and love are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

The Lord has not redeemed you so you might enjoy pleasures and luxuries or so that you might abandon yourself to ease and indolence, but rather so you should be prepared to endure all sorts of evils.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

Observe the seven seasons of secret prayer every day.

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

All sorts of spiritual gifts come through privations, if they are accepted.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

The key is - I'll say the key - number one, I pray every day.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

As you read or listen to God's Word and spend time talking to Him in prayer, your spirit will eventually become stronger than your flesh.

It is not because we are drawn to prayer that we first begin to pray; more often, we have to begin prayer, and then the taste and the desire for it come.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

My prayer life and my connection with God are on the highest level.

I pray every morning and night before bed.