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… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here? — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as… — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined. — Nathanael Emmons Copy Share Image
