01c. 1684 ADI do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
02c. 1684 ADI do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smooth pebble, or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
04c. 1684 ADThe birds without barn or storehouse are fed: / From them let us learn to trust for our bread.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
05c. 1684 ADWe may, like the ships, by tempests be toss'd / On perilous deeps, but cannot be lost.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
06c. 1684 ADYet one thing secures us, whatever betide, / The Scripture assures us the Lord will provide.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
07c. 1684 ADOne there is above all others, Well deserves the name of Friend! His is love beyond a brother's, Costly, free, and knows no end: They who once His kindness prove, Find it everlasting love!Isaac Newton / quote ↗
08c. 1684 AD’Tis a point I long to know, Oft it causes anxious thought, Do I love the Lord, or no? Am I his, or am I not? Could I joy his saints to meet, Choose the ways I once abhorred, Find at times the promise sweet, If I did not love the Lord?Isaac Newton / quote ↗
09c. 1684 ADQuiet, Lord, my froward heart, Make me teachable and mild, Upright, simple, free from art, Make me as a weaned child, From distrust and envy free, Pleased with all that pleases Thee.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
10c. 1684 ADBegone unbelief, my Saviour is near, And for my relief will surely appear; By prayer let me wrestle, and He will perform; With Christ in the vessel, I smile at the storm. His love in time past forbids me to think He’ll leave me at last in trouble to sink; Each sweet Ebenezer I have in review, Confirms His good pleasure to help me quite through. Why should I complain of want or distress, Temptation or pain? he told me no less! The heirs of salvation, I know from His word, Through much tribulation must follow their Lord.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
11c. 1684 ADRejoice, believer, in the Lord, Who makes your cause His own; The hope that’s built upon His word, Can ne’er be overthrown! As surely as He overcame, And triumph’d once for you; So surely you that love His name, Shall triumph in Him too!Isaac Newton / quote ↗
12c. 1684 ADO happy they who know the Lord, With whom be deigns to dwell, He feeds and cheers them by His word, His arm supports them well. He helped His saints in ancient days, Who trusted in His name; And we can witness to His praise, His love is still the same. His presence sweetens all our cares, And makes our burdens light; A word from Him dispels our fears, And gilds the gloom of night.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
13c. 1684 ADZeal is that pure and heavenly flame The fire of love supplies; While that which often bears the name, Is self in a disguise. True zeal is merciful and mild, Can pity and forbear; The false is headstrong, fierce, and wild; And breathes revenge and war. While zeal for truth the Christian warms, He knows the worth of peace; But self contends for names and forms, Its party to increase. Zeal has attained its highest aim, Its end is satisfied, If sinners love the Saviour’s name, Nor seeks it ought beside.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
14c. 1684 ADGlorious things of thee are spoken, Zion, city of our God! He, whose word cannot be broken, Formed thee for His own abode. On the rock of ages founded, What can shake Thy sure repose? With salvation’s walls surrounded, Thou may’st smile at all Thy foes. Saviour, if of Zion’s city I through grace a member am, Let the world deride or pity, I will glory in the name. Fading is the worldling’s pleasure, All his boasted pomp and show; Solid joys, and lasting treasure, None but Zion’s children know.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
15c. 1684 ADThe instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
17c. 1684 ADTruth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
18c. 1684 ADThis most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
19c. 1684 ADI can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
20c. 1684 ADGravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
21c. 1684 ADThis principle of nature being very remote from the conceptions of Philosophers, I forbore to describe it in that book, least I should be accounted an extravagant freak and so prejudice my Readers against all those things which were the main designe of the book.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
22c. 1684 ADIf I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.Isaac Newton / quote ↗
24c. 1684 ADHow came the bodies of animals to be contrived with so much art, and for what ends were their several parts?Was the eye contrived without skill in Opticks, and the ear without knowledge of sounds?...and these things being rightly dispatch’d, does it not appear from phænomena that there is a Being incorporeal, living, intelligent...?Isaac Newton / quote ↗
