We just got Amazing Grace on DVD using Christmas money (Thanks Grandma Ganun). I've seen it three times now and each time I pick up more and more good quotes in it. Here are a few of my favorites, and my reason for liking them:
1. John Newton: Although my memory's fading I remember two things very clearly: I'm a great sinner and Christ is a great Savior.
(What a wonderfully simple statement of two foundational truths of the Gospel. If I can remember those two things consistently, I'm sure it will go well with me).
2. William Wilberforce: No one of our age has ever taken power.
William Pitt: Which is why we're too young to realize certain things are impossible. Which is why we will do them anyway.
(I wonder when it is that we come to believe that certain things are impossible, and stop striving for them. How many wonderful advances in society and technology would not have happened had someone believed that they could not accomplish what they set out to do? I am challenged to ask myself if I've settled in any way. Are there things I myself believe impossible that are nothing of the sort. Have I simply used that as an excuse not to try anymore?)
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Hey John,
just thought I would share this. Kevin always said it was great to build/teach ministry with/to college students because they were too dumb to know better (meaning, of course, that they were not yet trained NOT to believe that the gospel was powerful and to be used!). So true and, I agree, a GREAT moment in the film!
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