“There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.”

—  John Newton

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 281.

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Anglican clergyman and hymn-writer 1725–1807

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