Nathanael Emmons

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift…

— Nathanael Emmons

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.

— Nathanael Emmons

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.

— Nathanael Emmons

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

— Nathanael Emmons

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will…

— Nathanael Emmons

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

— Nathanael Emmons

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.

— Nathanael Emmons

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?

— Nathanael Emmons

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of…

— Nathanael Emmons

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, so much the more has vital godliness declined.

— Nathanael Emmons

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

— Nathanael Emmons

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

— Nathanael Emmons

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence that creatures can exhibit of their sincere and supreme love to him.

— Nathanael Emmons

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

— Nathanael Emmons

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.

— Nathanael Emmons

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.

— Nathanael Emmons

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be…

— Nathanael Emmons

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.

— Nathanael Emmons

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.

— Nathanael Emmons

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires,…

— Nathanael Emmons

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.

— Nathanael Emmons