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
wise lying lows
The tall, the wise, the reverend head Must lie as low as ours.
book play
In books, or work, or healthful play.
light hundred certainty
Do not expect to arrive at certainty in every subject which you pursue. There are a hundred things wherein we mortals. . . must be content with probability, where our best light and reasoning will reach no farther.
travel mind
Nothing tends so much to enlarge the mind as traveling.
home should streets
Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
pain fire darkness
There is a dreadful Hell, And everlasting pains; There sinners must with devils dwell In darkness, fire, and chains.
gold rich peru
I would not change my native landFor rich Peru with all her gold
flower sacrifice bud
A flower, when offered in the bud, is no vain sacrifice.
jewels certain observation
When general observations are drawn from so many particulars as to become certain and indisputable, these are jewels of knowledge.
night sight age
A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.
men garden substance
The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
thinking talking violent
Some have a violent and turgid manner of talking and thinking; they are always in extremes, and pronounce concerning everything in the superlative.
easter love-is tree
Was it for crimes that I had done He groaned upon the tree? Amazing pity! Grace unknown! And love beyond degree!
flames soul bliss
What bliss will fill the ransomed souls, when they in glory dwell, to see the sinner as he rolls, in quenchless flames of hell.