Book Quote by Isaac Watts

“Lord, we confess our numerous faults, How great our guilt has been! Foolish and vain were all our thoughts, And all our lives were…

— Isaac Watts

“When the Eternal bows the skies To visit earthly things, With scorn divine he turns his eyes From towers of haughty kings. He bids…

— Isaac Watts

Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.

— 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…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— Isaac Watts

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

— Isaac Watts

“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…

— 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…

— 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