Quotes from Thomas Watson

Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.

A contented Christian does not seek to choose his cross but leaves God to choose for him. He is content with both for the kind and the duration. A contented spirit says, 'let God apply what medicine he pleases and let it remain as long as it will, I know that when it has done it's cure and eaten the venom of sin out of my heart, God will take it off again.

It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.

If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?

He who does not believe God's promises—will never love him.

Humility was never a loser.

We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.

Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ's blood. Father, my heart, my heart.' Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!

Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ—than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the repenting soul, "I will clothe you with the robe of righteousness; I will enrich you with the jewels and graces of my Spirit. I will bestow my love upon you! I will give you a kingdom! Son, all I have is yours!

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.

The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.

King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.

No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.

Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: "God means my sins;" when it presseth any duty, "God intends me in this." Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.

The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,

What is it to glorify God? Glorifying God consists in four things: 1. Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection. This is the yearly rent we pay to the crown of heaven.