23 Quotes by Nathanael Emmons

How vast is eternity! – It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.