"I hope the Lord will make you willing to be guided by him in all things, to leave him to choose your way, and to follow him wherever it leads through thick and thin. While we follow him we are sure to go right, if we take one step before him it will prove a wrong one. What he calls us to do he will strengthen us for and own us in. What he lays upon us he will support us under. But if we set ourselves to work we shall have [hard] labour for our pains. If we cut out our own crosses we shall find them heavier than his."
~ John Newton to John Rylands, May, 1773, in Wise Counsel, edited by Grant Gordon (Banner of Truth, 2009).
~ John Newton to John Rylands, May, 1773, in Wise Counsel, edited by Grant Gordon (Banner of Truth, 2009).
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