Category: John Newton

John Newton (1725–1807) was once a slave-ship captain who was converted to Christ and became an Anglican pastor in Olney and later London, and the author of “Amazing Grace.” He never got over the mercy shown to him, and it shaped everything he wrote. His letters of spiritual counsel are some of the wisest pastoral writing in English: honest about sin, patient with the struggling, and always pointing to Christ. Most of the quotes below come from those letters.
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