Isaac Watts Quotes

There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.

Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity.

A hermit who has been shut up in his cell in a college has contracted a sort of mould and rust upon his soul.

Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?

The eyes of a man in the jaundice make yellow observations on everything; and the soul tinctured with any passion diffuses a false color over the appearance of things.

Not all the blood of beasts On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain: But Christ, the heav'nly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler nam' And richer blood than they.

Vice and virtue chiefly imply the relation of our actions to men in this world; sin and holiness rather imply their relation to God and the other world.

And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.

Study detains the mind by the perpetual occurrence of something new, which may gratefully strike the imagination.

In matters of equity between man and man, our Saviour has taught us to put my neighbor in place of myself, and myself in place of my neighbor.

To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.

Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.

Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.

But, children, you should never let Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made To tear each other's eyes.

Earth, thou great footstool of our God, who reigns on high; thou fruitful source of all our raiment, life, and food; our house, our parent, and our nurse.

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings

Do not hover always on the surface of things, nor take up suddenly with mere appearances; but penetrate into the depth of matters, as far as your time and circumstances allow, especially in those things which relate to your profession.

The child taught to believe any occurrence a good or evil omen, or any day of the week lucky, hath a wide inroad made upon the soundness of his understanding.

Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.

I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold

Forbid it Lord that I should boast, save in the death of Christ, my God: All the vain things that charm me most, I sacrifice them to his blood.

When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.

Prayer is a sacred and appointed means to obtain all the blessings that we want, whether they relate to this life or the life to come.