My Heart Is Like A Highway

John Newton (1725-1807)

"This evil is present with me: my heart is like a highway, 

like a city without walls or gates. 

Nothing so false, so frivolous, so absurd, so impossible, so horrid, 

but it can obtain access, 

and that at any time, or in any place: 

neither the study, the pulpit, or even the Lord's Table, 

exempt me from their intrusion."

John Newton (Author of the hymn Amazing Grace, and pastor),

from Evil Present with the Believer, page 147