"The religion of some people is constrained; they are like people who use the cold bath — not for pleasure, but necessity, and for their health, they go in with reluctance, and is glad when they get out; but religion to a true believer is like water to a fish; it is his element, he lives in it, and could not live out of it."
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John Newton, letter, 24 January 1800, The Aged Pilgrim's Triumph Over Sin and the Grave (1825), p. 158
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