Isaac Watts
Isaac Watts
Isaac Wattswas an English Christian minister, hymnwriter, theologian and logician. A prolific and popular hymn writer, his work was part of evangelization. He was recognized as the "Father of English Hymnody", credited with some 750 hymns. Many of his hymns remain in use today and have been translated into numerous languages...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth17 July 1674
self long prejudice
The fondness we have for self furnishes another long rank of prejudices.
children fall fighting
Birds in their little nests agree; And 'tis a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.
soul way sin
Preserve your conscience always soft and sensitive. If but one sin force its way into that tender part of the soul and dwell there, the road is paved for a thousand iniquities.
teaching practice skills
Instructors should not only be skilful in those sciences which they teach, but have skill in the method of teaching, and patience in the practice.
satire ill satirist
Satirists do expose their own ill nature.
book idols stones
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
life sweet night
Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.
bible jobs rome
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.
pride degrees reason
Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.
lying water may
It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.
grief sea weeping
For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.
writing trying may
I write not for your farthing, but to try / How I your farthing writers, may outvie.
hands would-be satan
In works of labour or of skillI would be busy too:For Satan finds some mischief stillFor idle hands to do.
death repentance graves
There's no repentance in the grave.