Quotes from Thomas Watson

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

Christians must not be slothful. Idleness is the devil's bath; a slothful person becomes a prey to every temptation. Grace, while it cures the heart, does not make the hand lame. He who is called of God, as he works for heaven, so he works in his trade." - Thomas Watson

If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

lo que los juicios apremian- los afectos los abrazan. El que valora el oro, se deleitará en él. Tenemos la tendencia, por incredulidad, de entretener leves pensamientos de piedad, por lo tanto, nuestros afectos son tan leves. David apreciaba los estatutos de Dios a un ritmo elevado; "Más que desear son que el oro, y más que mucho oro fino," Salmo 19.10. y por lo tanto creció que el amor se inflama por

An upright man is always worth beholding—but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.

repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.

Daily bread may make us live comfortably but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.

What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God's voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.

Though God is the fountain of grace—yet the saints are the pipes which transmit the living streams to others.

To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.

Godly sorrow goes deep, like a vein which bleeds inwardly. The heart bleeds for sin: "they were pricked in their heart" (Act 2:37). As the heart bears a chief part in sinning, so it must in sorrowing.

Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.

He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.

He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.

Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.

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? 1.Consider

As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?