# “The richest privilege we are capable of receiving on this side eternity” by John Newton

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“Prayer is indeed the best half of our business while upon earth, and that which
gives spirit and efficacy to all the rest.

Prayer is not only our immediate duty, but the highest dignity, the richest privilege
we are capable of receiving on this side eternity; and the neglect of it implies
the deepest guilt, and includes the heaviest punishment.

A stranger to prayer, is equally a stranger to God and to happiness, like a wave
of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Are any of you, my friends, unacquainted with prayer?

Then are you without God in the world, without a guide in prosperity, without resource
in distress, without true comfort in life, and, while you continue so, without hope
in death.”

–John Newton, **[_The Works of John Newton_](https://heritagebooks.org/products/the-works-of-john-newton-4-vols.html),
[_Volume 2_](https://www.amazon.com/dp/1848715110?tag=toletaupanre-20) **(Carlisle,
PA: Banner of Truth, 1988), 2: 328.

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