148 Quotes by Isaac Watts

For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Tell of His wondrous faithfulness, and sound his power abroad; sing the sweet promise of His grace, the love and truth of God.

'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, you have waked me too soon, I must slumber again.

Tis true my form is something odd But blaming me is blaming God Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. If I could reach from pole to pole Or grasp the ocean with a span I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the man.

So, when a raging fever burns, We shift from side to side by turns; And 't is a poor relief we gain To change the place, but keep the pain.

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.

Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.

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.

As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram themselves in vain with intellectual food.