Thomas Watson Quotes

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• Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

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  Christian, Jesus, Grace

  Thomas Watson, R. Armstrong (1816). “The Christian Soldier: Or, Heaven Taken by Storm, Shewing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. To which is Added: The Happiness of Drawing Near to God, and The Saint's Desire to be with Christ”, p.25

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• Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

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  Men, Light, Torches

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• Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

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  Sunset, Godly, Night

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• Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

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  Father, Devil, Wages

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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• Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

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  Sweet, Bitter, Sin

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• When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.

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  Christian, Hate, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.75, Ravenio Books

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• The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

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  Prayer, Angel, Prison

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• Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

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  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

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• A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

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  Christian, Blessing, Men

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• God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

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  Religious, Pain, Inward

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.22, Gideon House Books

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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

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  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

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  Gone, Sin, Pleasure

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.568

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• First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

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  Practice, Firsts, Sin

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• A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

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  Strong, Christ, Weak

  Thomas Watson (2012). “The Holy Eucharist, or, the Mystery of the Lord’s Supper Briefly Explained”, p.82, Puritan Publications

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• The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?

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  Disappointment, Home, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.78, Scripture Truth

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• Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

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  Adversity, Affliction, May

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• It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!

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  Stars, Angel, Noble

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• Our murmuring is the devil's music.

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  Devil, Murmuring, Christianity

  Thomas Watson (1829). “The Art of Divine Contentement”, p.112

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• Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

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  Prayer, Offering, Names

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• Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.

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  Eye, Feet, Obedience

  "A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism".

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• This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

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  Purpose, Crowns, Free Will

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• Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

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  Grace, Election, Pleasure

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.91, Gideon House Books

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• How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

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  Wind, Soul, Hell

  Thomas Watson (1829). “Discourses on important and interesting subjects: being the select works of Thomas Watson”, p.410

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• There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

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  Adversity, Sea, Evil

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

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• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

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  Prayer, Arrows, Grace

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

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