“Everything is necessary that [God] sends;
nothing can be necessary that he withholds.”
—John Newton
[If anyone has the source, please let us know.]
Update: Joseph Mancuso suggests it is a paraphrase of a quote from Newton’s Works, vol. 1, p. 249 (Letter XVI, “On the Inefficacy of Our Knowledge):
He chooses for his people better than they could choose for themselves.
If they are in heaviness, there is a need-be for it, and he withholds nothing from them but what, upon the whole, it is better they should be without.
Biblically, see Romans 8:32 and Psalm 84:11b.
HT: Darrin Patrick
