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 (Minister/Theologian 1674 -1748)

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

Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.

Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

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 (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

From all who dwell below the skies, Let the Creator’s praise arise; Let the Redeemer’s name be sung, Through every land, by every tongue.

Isaac Watts (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

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 (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

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 (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)

Isaac Watts is accredited with some 750 hymns that he wrote and I think we all know this one. I have heard it every Christmas for as long as I have been alive and still love it today. Have a blessed day!!!

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 (Minister/Theologian 1674 – 1748)