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John Newton: Trials are medicines...

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Trials are medicines which our gracious and wise physician prescribes because we need them; and he proportions the frequency and weight of them to what the case requires.

Source: In Draper's Book of Quotations for the Christian World, by Edythe Draper, 1992.
-- John Newton, (Jul 24 1725-1807), English hymn writer, minister, sea captain; His early life of wanton sin included African slave trade; his hymns include Amazing Grace, and How Sweet the Name of Jesus Sounds.

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