Thomas Watson Quotes

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Some have asked whether we shall know one another in heaven? Surely, our knowledge will not be diminished, but increased. The judgement of Luther and Anselm, and many other divines is, that we shall know one another; yea, the saints of all ages, whose faces we never saw; and, when we shall see the saints in glory without their infirmities of pride end passion, it will be a glorious sight.

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.

Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.

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.

There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

The Kingdom of grace is nothing but.... the beginning of the Kingdom of glory; the Kingdom of grace is glory in the seed, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the flower; the Kingdom ofgrace is glory in the daybreak, and the Kingdom of glory is grace in the full meridian; the Kingdom of grace is glory militant, and the Kingdom of glory is grace triumphant.... the Kingdom ofgrace leads to the Kingdom of glory.

Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?

If you don't genuinely like your customers, chances are they won't buy.

He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood.... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.

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.

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

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

The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.

Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.

If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132).

We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.

It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. "He hath chosen us, that we should be holy" (Eph. 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to boldness, not for it.

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

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