Quotes from Thomas Watson

Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.

A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.

Our sins are worser than the sins of the devils: the lapsed angels never sinned against Christ's blood. Chris died not for them.The medicine of his merit was never intended to heal them. But we have affronted and disparaged his blood by unbelief.

God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.

How welcome is a surgeon to a man who is bleeding from his wounds!

The wisdom of God is seen in making the most desperate evils turn to the good of his children. As several poisonable ingredients, wisely tempered by the skill of the artist, make a sovereign medicine, so God makes the most deadly afflictions co-operate for the good of his children. He purifies them, and prepares them for heaven. 2 Cor 4: I7. These hard frosts hasten the spring flowers of glory.

What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.

The eye is for both seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for.

learn Christ, is to believe in him; "my Lord, and my God,"Jno. 20. 28 when we do not only believe God, but in God, which is the actual application of Christ to ourselves, and as it were the spreading of the sacred medicine of his blood upon our souls.

men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.

To sweat in some duties of religion, and freeze in others is the symptom of a disordered Christian.

So dear is sin to a man that he will rather part with a child than with a lust

A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.

Fulgens hoc aurum praestringit oculos [This gold with its glitter blinds the eyes]. Varius.

To obey God, is not so much our duty—as our privilege; his commands carry food in the mouth of them. He bids us repent—and why? That our sins may be blotted out. Acts 3:19. He commands us to believe—and why? That we may be saved. Acts 16:31. There is love in every command. It is as if a king should bid one of his subjects dig in a gold mine, and then keep the gold for himself.

An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.

Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current.

This is a sign of a new nature: when a man hates what he once loved! And because he hates sin, therefore he fights against it with the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17), as a man who hates a serpent seeks the destruction of it.

The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.

What is the reason the word works so differently? It is because the Spirit of God carries the word to the conscience of one and not another. One has receive the divine unction and not the other.

Seguramente la ignorancia en estos días es grande. Una cosa es no saber, otra cosa es no estar dispuesto a saber: "los hombres amaron más las tinieblas que la luz" (Juan 3:19).

The sum and definition of religion is, be rich in works of mercy, be helpful to the bodies and souls of others. Scatter your golden seeds; let the lamp of your profession be filled with the oil of charity. Be merciful in giving and forgiving. 'Be ye merciful, as your heavenly Father is merciful'.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

cuando la gracia entra en el corazón, oh qué cambio está ahí! Prepondera la gracia, se presenta frente a la rebelión de la voluntad- hace a un hombre de otro espíritu! convierte el furor de león, en una dulzura de paloma! cambia el odio en delicia! pone un nuevo sesgo en la voluntad! Actúa una espontaneidad y la alegría en servicio de Dios. "tu pueblo será un pueblo dispuesto en el día de tu poder," Salmo 110.8.