How happy are they who can resign all to him, see his hand in every dispensation, and believe that he chooses better for them than they possibly could for themselves.

We are prone to fix our attention upon the second causes and immediate instruments of events; forgetting that whatever befalls us is according to his purpose

How highly does it become us, both as creatures and as sinners, to submit to the appointments of our Maker! And how necessary is it to our peace!

An acquiescence in the Lord's will, founded in a persuasion of his wisdom, holiness, sovereignty, and goodness. This is one of the greatest privileges and brightest ornaments of our profession.

What a privilege is this, to possess God *in all things* while we have them, and all things in God when they are taken from us!

Though sin wars, it shall not reign; and though it breaks our peace, it cannot separate from his love.
- John Newton

They are to be pitied, who, if they are at some times happy in the Lord, can at other times be happy without him, and rejoice in broken cisterns, when their spirits are at a distance from the fountain of living waters.

John Newton was so often in Whitefield's company, and admired him so much, that he was sometimes known as 'the little Whitefield'!

Whoever is truly humbled will not be easily angry, will not be positive & rash, will be compassionate & tender to the infirmities of his fellow-sinners, knowing, that if there be a difference, it is grace that has made it, & that he has the seeds of every evil in his own heart

There is a difference in kind between the feeblest efforts of faith in a real believer, while he is covered with shame at the thoughts of his miscarriages, and the highest and most specious attainments of those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight.

That we are totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.

The houses of believers, though most of them called cottages, are truly palaces; for it is the presence of the king that makes the court.

The righteous are said to be scarcely saved, not with respect to the certainty of the event, but in respect of their own apprehensions, and the great difficulties they are brought through.

“If I venture beyond the pole of the Bible, I’m on enchanted ground and subject to illusions and distortions.” - John Newton

The unchangeableness of the Lord's love, and the riches of his mercy, are more illustrated by the multiplied pardons he bestows upon his people, than if they needed no forgiveness at all.

I believe that he has a sovereign right to do what he will with his own, and that this sovereignty is but another name for the unlimited exercise of wisdom and goodness.

The true end of life is, to live not to ourselves, but to him who died for us.
- John Newton
(British Museum tour this morning with another bright group from Arma Dei Academy!)

Blessed be God, though we must feel hourly cause for shame and humiliation for what we are in ourselves, we have cause to rejoice continually in Christ Jesus

Confusion and darkness will not follow us into the world where light and order reign. Then, and not till then, our knowledge will be perfect, and our possession of it uninterrupted and secure.

We cannot conquer the obstacles in our way by our own strength; yet we can give way to them; and if we do, it is our sin, and will be our sorrow.