Nathanael Emmons famous quotes

Style should be like window-glass, perfectly transparent, and with very little sash.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Glasses #Style #Littles

The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Men #Thinking #Conceit

It is easy to learn something about everything, but difficult to learn everything about anything.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Learning #Easy #Difficult

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Two #Firsts

The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Men #Form #Godliness

Obedience to God is the most infallible evidence of sincere and supreme love to him.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Sincere #Obedience #Evidence

Just definitions either prevent or put an end to disputes.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Justice #Definitions #Disputes

Be short in all religious exercises. Better leave the people longing than loathing.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Religious #Exercise #People

Make no display of your talents or attainments; for every one will clearly see, admire, and acknowledge them, so long as you cover them with the beautiful veil of modesty
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Beautiful #Long #Veils

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Order #Moral #Argument

Real holiness has love for its essence, humility for its clothing, the good of others as its employment, and the honor of God as its end.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Love #Real #Humility

You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Friendship #Heaven #Fool

There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism, upon which a man can firmly fix his foot.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Men #Feet #Infidelity

I could never think well of a man's intellectual or moral character, if he was habitually unfaithful to his appointments.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Character #Men #Thinking

Insanity destroys reason, but not wit.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Insanity #Reason #Wit

Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Roots #Evil #Selfishness

One principal reason why men are so often useless is that they neglect their own profession or calling, and divide and shift their attention among a multitude of objects and pursuits.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Success #Men #Attention

Death stamps the characters and conditions of men for eternity. - As death finds them in this world, so will they be in the next.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Character #Men #World

How vast is eternity! - It will swallow up all the human race; it will collect all the intelligent universe; it will open scenes and prospects wide enough, great enough, and various enough to fix the attention, and absorb the minds of all intelligent beings forever.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Intelligent #Race #Forever

Moral conduct includes every thing in which men are active and for which they are accountable. They are active in their desires, their affections, their designs, their intentions, and in every thing they say and do of choice; and for all these things they are accountable to God.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Men #Design #Accountability

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Two #Facts #Three

Steady, patient, persevering thinking will generally surmount every obstacle in search of truth.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Thinking #Obstacles #Patient

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.
-- Nathanael Emmons

#Positive #Habit #Masters