Truth Quotes by Isaac Watts

9 Truth quotes by Isaac Watts

If you’re looking for a quick taste of Watts’s take on honesty, these nine lines give a clear sense of his devotional tone. He weaves faith and reason, making each sentence feel like a gentle reminder rather than a sermon.

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Custom and authority are no sure evidence of truth.

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

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

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

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

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It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say…

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He rules the world with truth and grace, and makes the nations prove, the glories of His righteousness and wonders of His…

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Some persons believe everything that their kindred, their parents, and their tutors believe. The veneration and the love which they have for…

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Once a day, especially in the early years of life and study, call yourselves to an account what new ideas, what new…

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

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For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.

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

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

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

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“The Spirit is sent down to breathe On such dry bones as we. 6 Rais'd from the dead we live anew; And justify'd by…

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

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

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