Amazing Grace How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me! John Newton saw himself as a despicable person, a wretch. He realized that there was nothing good in him. The story today is a bit different. We don't want to see ourselves as "worm, wretch, etc." instead we say, "Thank God He saved me, but I was not THAT bad!" REALLY? If you are a sinner you (& I) are no more than a lowly wretch, NOT DESERVING Christ.