Nathaniel Emmons Quotes
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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.
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Selfishness is the root and source of all natural and moral evils.
[Selfishness]
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Steady, patient, persevering thinking, will generally surmount every obstacle in the search after truth.
[Patience]
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Style is only the frame to hold our thoughts. It is like the sash of a window, if heavy it will obscure the light. The object is to have as little sash as will hold the light, that we may not think of the former, but have the latter.
[Style]
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Submission to God is the only balm that can heal the wounds he gives.
[Resignation]
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The gospel in all its doctrines and duties appears infinitely superior to any human composition. - It has no mark of human ignorance, imperfection, or sinfulness, but bears the signature of divine wisdom, authority, and importance, and is most worthy of the supreme attention and regard of all intelligent creatures.
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The highest graces of music flow from the feelings of the heart.
[Music]
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The more men have multiplied the forms of religion, the more vital Godliness has declined.
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The weakest spot in every man is where he thinks himself to be the wisest.
[Conceit]
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The work of redemption is the most glorious of all the works of God; it will forever remain the grand mirror to reflect the brightest beams of the divine glory.
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There is no vice in nature more debasing and destructive to men than intemperance. It robs them of their reason, reputation, and interest. It renders them unfit for human society. It degrades them below the beasts that perish, and justly exposes them to universal odium and contempt.
[Intemperance]
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There is not a single spot between Christianity and atheism on which a man can firmly fix his foot.
[Infidelity]
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There is not so much difference in men's ideas of elementary truth, as is generally thought. A greater difference lies in their power of reasoning from these truths.
[Reason]
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To reason correctly from a false principle, is the perfection of sophistry.
[Reason]
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To reason justly from a false principle is the perfection of sophistry, which it is more difficult to expose than to refute false reasoning, - The proper way to expose its errors is to show that just and conclusive reasonings have been built on some false or absurd principle.
[Sophistry]
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Vice is the bane of a republic, and saps the foundations of liberty. - If our industry, economy, temperance, justice, and public faith, are once extinguished by the opposite vices, our boasted constitution which is built on the pillars of virtue, must necessarily fall.
[Vice]
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We are apt to overlook the hand and heart of God in our afflictions, and to consider them as mere accidents, and unavoidable evils. - This view makes them absolute and positive evils which admit of no remedy or relief. - If we view our troubles and trials aside from the divine design and agency in them, we cannot be comforted.
[Affliction]
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We ought to judge of preachers, not only from what they do say, but from what they do not say.
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You ask if we shall know our friends in heaven. - Do you suppose we are greater fools there than here?
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