John Henry Newton byl anglikánský kněz pocházející z Anglie, původně kapitán otrokářské lodi. Složil mnoho písní, mj. „Úžasnou milost“ . Wikipedia
„Můj hlavní záměr v kázání je zlomit tvrdá srdce, a zhojit zlomená.“
Originál: (en) My grand point in preaching is to break the hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
Zdroj: A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern. S 437.
Originál: (en) When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior.
Zdroj: [J. Campbell, The Christian witness and church members' magazine, https://books.google.cz/books?id=EfcDAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, John Snow, London, 1851, 596, 15, angličtina]
„Jsem stále v zemi umírajících; brzy budu v zemi živých.“
Poslední slova před smrtí.
Originál: (en) I am still in the land of the dying; I shall be in the land of the living soon.
Zdroj: [Pierson, Arthur Tappan, Seed Thoughts for Public Speakers, https://archive.org/stream/seedthoughtsfor00piergoog#page/n108/mode/2up, Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York, 1900, 361, 97, angličtina]
„Náboženství je to nejlepší brnění na světě, ale ten nejhorší plášť.“
Originál: (en) Religion is the best armor in the world, but the worst cloak.
Zdroj: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors. S 242.
Originál: (en) What will it profit a man if he gains his cause and silences his adversary — if at the same time he loses that humble, tender frame of spirit in which the Lord delights, and to which the promise of his presence is made?
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, Svazek I. S. 156.
Originál: (en) If the trade is at present carried on to the same extent and nearly in the same manner, while we are delaying from year to year to put a stop to our part in it, the blood of many thousands of our helpless, much injured fellow creatures is crying against us. The pitiable state of the survivors who are torn from their relatives, connections, and their native land must be taken into account. I fear the African trade is a national sin, for the enormities which accompany it are now generally known; and though, perhaps, the greater part of the nation would be pleased if it were suppressed, yet, as it does not immediately affect their own interest, they are passive.
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, Svazek II. S. 438.
Originál: (en) That we are so totally depraved, is a truth which no one ever truly learned by being only told it.
Zdroj: Ibid., s.210.
Originál: (en) Those who are unhappily employed in poisoning souls, generally make use of some important and salutary truth, as a vehicle by which they convey their malignant drug into the minds of the unwary.
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton. Svazek IV. S. 459.
Originál: (en) I am not what I ought to be — ah, how imperfect and deficient! I am not what I wish to be — I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good! I am not what I hope to be — soon, soon shall I put off mortality, and with mortality all sin and imperfection. Yet, though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, nor what I hope to be, I can truly say, I am not what I once was; a slave to sin and Satan; and I can heartily join with the apostle, and acknowledge, „By the grace of God I am what I am.“
Zdroj: [The Scottish Pulpit, III, https://books.google.cz/books?id=0Z1VAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, W. R. M'Phun, Glasgow, 1844, 484, 303, angličtina]
Originál: (en) One reason why women are forbidden to preach the gospel, is, that they would persuade without argument and reprove without giving offence.
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, Svazek I. S. 64.
I am sure a minister had need be such a one: a brave soldier, an alert watchman, a caring shepherd, a hardworking farmer, a skillful builder, a wise counselor, a competent physician and a loving nurse.]
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton. Svazek IV. S. 294.
Originál: (en) If I ever reach heaven I expect to find three wonders there; first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there.
Zdroj: A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors, Both Ancient and Modern. S 233.
„Tehdy jsme připraveni na nebe, když je tam před námi naše srdce.“
Originál: (en) Then are we ready for heaven when our heart is there before us.
Zdroj: [Edwards, Tryon, The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors, https://books.google.cz/books?id=LM0QVhkWKrcC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, M. W. Dodd, New York, 1853, 432, 359, angličtina]
Originál: (en) The Lord afflicts us at times; but it is always a thousand times less than we deserve, and much less than many of our fellow-creatures are suffering around us.
Zdroj: Ibid., s. 393.
Originál: (en) This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.
Zdroj: [Newton, John, Cardiphonia; or, The utterance of the heart, in the course of a real correspondence.With an intr. essay by D. Russell, https://books.google.cz/books?id=ZHcBAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0, II, T. Nelson and sons, London, 1857, 480, 181, angličtina]
Originál: (en) When we look at the ungodly, we are not to hate them — but to pity them, mourn over them, and pray for them. Nor have we any right to boast over them; for, by nature, and of ourselves, we are no better than they.
Zdroj: Ibid., s.196.
Originál: (en) Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil. I am content to observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape from it, and with this I begin and end.
Zdroj: The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, Svazek I. S. 61.
Originál: (en) There is a signature of wisdom and power impressed on the works of God, which evidently distinguishes them from the feeble imitations of men. Not only the splendor of the sun, but the glimmering light of the glowworm, proclaims His glory.
Zdroj: [Newton, John, The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, https://books.google.cz/books?id=ejYIv91QlGUC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, II, U. Hunt, Philadelphia, 1839, 480, 230, angličtina]
Zdroj: Come, My Soul, Thy Suit Prepare. (2016, January 21). In Wikisource. Retrieved 15:05, February 6, 2016, from https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Come,_My_Soul,_Thy_Suit_Prepare&oldid=6077724. (angličtina)
„Sloužíme milostivému Pánu, který dovede obrátit i naše chyby ke své slávě a nám ku prospěchu.“
Originál: (en) We serve a gracious Master who knows how to overrule even our mistakes to His glory and our own advantage.
Zdroj: [Newton, John, The Works of the Rev. John Newton ... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life, &c, https://books.google.cz/books?id=uHZWgFhIC9YC&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, I, U. Hunt, Philadelphia, 1839, 486, 319, angličtina]
„Tvá vzácná milost, šťastný den!
Je spasen lidský vrak!
Já ztracený byl nalezen,
slepému vrácen zrak.“
Zdroj: Amazing Grace. (2016, January 21). In Wikisource. Retrieved 10:04, February 6, 2016, from https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=Amazing_Grace&oldid=6077709. (angličtina)
Originál: (en) And surely, if He were strict to mark all that is amiss — I myself would tremble! Oh, were He to plead against me—I could not answer Him one word! Alas! my dear friend, you know not what a poor, unprofitable, unfaithful creature I am! If you knew the evils which I feel within, and the snares and difficulties which beset me from without—you would pity me indeed! So much forgiven — yet so little love to Jesus. So many mercies — yet so few returns. Such great privileges — yet a life so sadly below them.
Zdroj: [Newton, John, The Works of the Rev. John Newton, IV, https://books.google.cz/books?id=_LY9AAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=cs&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false, Nathan Whiting, New Haven, 1824, 616, 291, angličtina]
As quoted in The Christian Pioneer (1856) edited by Joseph Foulkes Winks, p. 84. Also in The Christian Spectator, vol. 3 (1821), p. 186 http://books.google.com/books?id=mv4oAAAAYAAJ&dq=ah%2C%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&pg=PA186#v=onepage&q=ah,%20how%20imperfect%20and%20deficient!%20I%20am%20not%20what%20I%20wish%20to%20be&f=false
Often paraphrased as I am not the man I ought to be, I am not the man I wish to be, and I am not the man I hope to be, but by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be."'
Varianta: Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
That saved a wretch like me!
I once was lost, but now am found,
Was blind, but now I see.
Zdroj: Olney Hymns (1779), Amazing Grace
Varianta: Thou art coming to a King,
large petitions with thee bring,
for His grace and pow'r are such
none can ever ask too much.
“Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.”
The Works of the Rev. John Newton http://books.google.com.mx/books?id=ejYIv91QlGUC&pg=PA382&lpg=PA382&dq=newton+we+must+worship+the+lamb&source=bl&ots=zNMOTpAZ3y&sig=llNL3C_qLM50GDCA9RkmkZDWuYs&hl=es-419&sa=X&ei=__KXUsexDZXeoAScnoLgBg&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=newton%20we%20must%20worship%20the%20lamb&f=false, Vol. 2, p. 382.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 475.
As quoted in The Works of the Rev. John Newton... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life (1839), Vol. 2, U. Hunt, pages 429-230.
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.
These lines were not written by Newton. They have often been accreted to various hymns, including "Amazing Grace", since the mid-nineteenth century.
Misattributed
Zdroj: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 266.
Letter (February 1772) http://www.graceonlinelibrary.org/articles/full.asp?id=33|35|383
Alluding to the biblical verse in Isaiah 33:1. As quoted in The Works of the Rev. John Newton... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life (1839), Vol. 2, U. Hunt., page 438.
The pitiable state of the survivors who are torn from their relatives, connections, and their native land must be taken into account. I fear the African trade is a national sin, for the enormities which accompany it are now generally known; and though, perhaps, the greater part of the nation would be pleased if it were suppressed, yet, as it does not immediately affect their own interest, they are passive. {...] Can we wonder that the calamities of the present war begin to be felt at home, when we ourselves wilfully and deliberately inflict much greater calamities upon the native Africans, who never offended us?. "Woe unto thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled"
Alluding to the biblical verse in Isaiah 33:1. As quoted in The Works of the Rev. John Newton... to which are Prefixed Memoirs of His Life (1839), Vol. 2, U. Hunt., page 438.