110+ Isaac Watts Quotes On Religion, God And Bible

Isaac Watts was an English politician and a member of the Whig Party. He was a Member of Parliament for Salisbury from 1784 to 1802 and was also Chief Secretary for Ireland from 1794 to 1795. Watts was a prominent supporter of the abolition of the slave trade and of Catholic emancipation. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Isaac Watts on religion, love, god.

Top 10 Isaac Watts Quotes

1. For Satan always finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.
2. 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.
3. Poesy and oratory omit things not essential, and insert little beautiful digressions, in order to place everything in the most effective light.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. When I survey the wondrous cross On which the Prince of Glory died, My richest gain I count but loss, And pour contempt on all my pride.
7. Learning to trust is one of life's most difficult tasks.
8. Our God, our help in ages past,Our hope for years to come,Our shelter from the stormy blast,And our eternal home.
9. Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
10. Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God.

Isaac Watts Short Quotes

• Roses grow on thorns and honey wears a sting.
• I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
• Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still.
• Acquaint yourself with your own ignorance.
• I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
• Do not be deceived; happiness and enjoyment do not lie in wicked ways.
• To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
• No science is speedily learned by the noblest genius without tuition.
• Dear Lord. I give myself away. I've nothing else to give.
• Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

Isaac Watts Quotes About Love

Now shall my inward joys arise, And burst into a song; Almighty love inspires my heart, And pleasure tunes my tongue. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet. — Isaac Watts

Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree! — Isaac Watts

thanks to my friends for their care in my breeding, Who taught me betimes to love working and reading. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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

He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His love. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Quotes About God

How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, for God hath made them so. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Quotes About Life

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. — Isaac Watts

Abandon the secret chamber and the spiritual life will decay. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

Our life contains a thousand springs, And dies if one be gone. Strange! that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

The passions are the gales of life; and it is religion only that can prevent them from rising into a tempest. — Isaac Watts

Death, like an overflowing stream, Sweeps us away: our life's a dream. — Isaac Watts

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Quotes About Nature

The tulip and the butterfly Appear in gayer coats than I: Let me be dressed fine as I will, Flies, worms, and flowers exceed me still. — Isaac Watts

Satirists do expose their own ill nature. — Isaac Watts

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. — Isaac Watts

Reason is the glory of human nature, and one of the chief eminences whereby we are raised above our fellow-creatures, the brutes, in this lower world. — Isaac Watts

Joy to the world, the Lord is come / Let earth receive her King / Let every heart, prepare him room / And heaven and nature sing. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Quotes About Mind

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth. — Isaac Watts

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation. — Isaac Watts

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness. — Isaac Watts

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

Talking over the things which you have read with your companions fixes them on the mind. — Isaac Watts

Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Quotes About Appearances

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

Every one of his opinions appears to himself to be written with sunbeams. — Isaac Watts

Isaac Watts Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Isaac Watts

There is a land of pure delight, Where saints immortal reign; Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain. — Isaac Watts

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

From all who dwell below the skiesLet the Creator's praise arise;Let the Redeemer's name be sungThrough every land, by every tongue. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts

The stars, that in their courses roll, Have much instruction given; But Thy good Word informs my soul How I may climb to Heaven. — Isaac Watts

How doth the little busy bee Improve each shining hour, And gather honey all the day From every opening flower! — Isaac Watts

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

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. — Isaac Watts

Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities. — Isaac Watts

When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge. — Isaac Watts

The Fondness we have for Self, and the Relation which other Persons and Things have to ourselves, furnish us with another long Rank of Prejudices. — Isaac Watts

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

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. — Isaac Watts

Lord, I ascribe it to thy grace,And not to chance as others do,That I was born of Christian race,And not a Heathen, or a Jew. — Isaac Watts

For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do. — Isaac Watts

Ten thousand things there are which we believe merely upon the authority or credit of those who have spoken or written them. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell. — Isaac Watts

In Job and the Psalms we shall find more sublime ideas, more elevated language, than in any of the heathen versifiers of Greece or Rome. — Isaac Watts

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

Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life. — Isaac Watts

Hush! my dear, lie still and slumber, Holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number Gently falling on thy head. — Isaac Watts

Thoughts, like old vultures, prey upon their heart-strings — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

There's no repentance in the grave. — Isaac Watts

The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

For sov'reign pow'r reign not alone, Grace is the partner of the throne; Thy grace and justice mighty Lord, Shall well divide our last reward. — Isaac Watts

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

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

Fancy and humour, early and constantly indulged in, may expect an old age overrun with follies. — Isaac Watts

Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, To mourn, and murmur and repine, To see the wicked placed on high, In pride and robes of honor shine. But oh, their end, their dreadful end, Thy sanctuary taught me so, On slipp'ry rocks I see them stand, And fiery billows roll below. — Isaac Watts

In books, or work, or healthful play. — Isaac Watts

Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice. — Isaac Watts

Whene'er I take my walks abroad,How many poor I see!What shall I render to my GodFor all his gifts to me? — Isaac Watts

Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth. — Isaac Watts

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative. — Isaac Watts

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts

Do not spend the day in gathering flowers by the way side, lest night come upon you before you arrive at your journey's end, and then you will not reach it. — Isaac Watts

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last. — Isaac Watts

I have been there, and still would go; 'T is like a little heaven below. — Isaac Watts

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

The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours. — Isaac Watts

What's amiss I'll strive to mend,And endure what can't be mended. — Isaac Watts

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. — Isaac Watts

Salvation, O the joyful sound! 'Tis pleasure to our ears; A sov'reign balm for ev'ry wound, A cordial for our fears. — Isaac Watts

In common discourse we denominate persons and things according to the major part of their character; he is to be called a wise man who has but few follies. — Isaac Watts

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

Birds in their little nest agree; and 'Tis a shameful sight, when children of one family fall out, and chide, and fight. — Isaac Watts

Life Lessons by Isaac Watts

1. Isaac Watts taught the importance of hard work and dedication, as he worked tirelessly to improve the lives of those around him.
2. He also showed the value of humility and selflessness, as he put the needs of others before his own.
3. Lastly, Watts demonstrated the power of optimism and resilience, as he never gave up on his goals despite the many challenges he faced.