Quotes from Thomas Watson

God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.

Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

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

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

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

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

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

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

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

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

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!

We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?

Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use

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

The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.

It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.

The gospel sweetens the law.

Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.

Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.

A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!