Quotes from Isaac Watts

A constant and joyous readiness at the call of God to depart hence [to heaven], with a cheerful patience to continue here [on earth] during His pleasure, is the most perfect and blessed temper that a Christian can arrive at. It gives God the highest glory and keeps the soul in sweetest peace.

The great God, in a way of bounty, may often bestow upon us vastly beyond what our little services can ever pretend to have deserved, but He never punishes beyond our deserts.

If we proportion our assent in all things to the degrees of evidence, we do the utmost that human nature is capable of, in a rational way, to secure itself from error.

Let dogs delight to bark and bite, ?For God hath made them so; Let bears and lions growl and fight, ?For 'tis their nature too. But, children, you should never let ?Such angry passions rise; Your little hands were never made ?To tear each other's eyes.

Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.

Speak softly. It is far better to rule by love than fear.Speak softly. Let no harsh words mar the good we may do here.

Were the whole realm of nature mine, That were a present far too small: Love so amazing, so divine Demands my soul, my life, my all.