Isaac Watts
I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.Collection: Home
Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.Collection: Learning
For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
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.
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.
Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.
Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.Collection: Soul
Order my footsteps by Thy Word and make my heart sincere; let sin have no dominion, Lord, but keep my conscience clear.Collection: Christian
It is not to be expected that we should love God supremely if we have not known him to be more desirable than all other things.Collection: God Love
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.Collection: Birthday
There's no repentance in the grave.Collection: Death
Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.Collection: Mars
Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay.Collection: Spiritual
Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Art
Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for their ancestors incline them to swallow down all their opinions at once, without examining what truth or falsehood there is in them. Men take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.Collection: Believe
To be angry about trifles is mean and childish; to rage and be furious is brutish; and to maintain perpetual wrath is akin to the practice and temper of devils; but to prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.Collection: Forgiveness
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.Collection: Sacrifice
Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new proposition or truth you have gained, what further confirmation of known truths, and what advances you have made in any part of knowledge.Collection: Reflection
Maintain a constant watch at all times against a dogmatical spirit: fix not your assent to any proposition in a firm and unalterable manner, till you have some firm and unalterable ground for it, and till you have arrived at some clear and sure evidence.Collection: Watches
Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.Collection: Rose
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.Collection: Prayer
Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.Collection: Lying
Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.Collection: Love Is
Must I be carried to the skies on flowery beds of ease, while others fought to win the prize and sailed through bloody seas?Collection: Struggle
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.Collection: Travel
Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.Collection: Authority
Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind.Collection: Book
A dogmatical spirit inclines a man to be censorious of his neighbors. Every one of his opinions appears to him written, as it were, with sunbeams, and he grows angry that his neighbors do not see it in the same light. He is tempted to disdain his correspondents as men of low and dark understandings because they do not believe what he does.Collection: Believe
It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.Collection: Passion
When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.Collection: Sophistry
And he that does one fault at first And lies to hide it, makes it two.Collection: Lying
No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.Collection: Teaching
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.Collection: Men
To God the Father, God the Son, And God the Spirit, Three in One, Be honour, praise, and glory given By all on earth, and all in heaven.Collection: Father
From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue.Collection: Land
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.Collection: Men
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.Collection: Life
Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.Collection: Dear Lord
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.Collection: Lying
Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.Collection: Mind
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.Collection: Light
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.Collection: Hands
The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven.Collection: Stars