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Quotes About Belief

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
~ Thomas Watson
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
~ Thomas Watson
Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
~ Thomas Watson
If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?
~ Thomas Watson
He who does not believe God's promises—will never love him.
~ Thomas Watson
God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
~ Thomas Watson
The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.
~ Thomas Watson
There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.
~ Thomas Watson
You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
~ Thomas Watson
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
~ Thomas Watson
repentance is of such importance, that there is no being saved without it.
~ Thomas Watson
Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
~ Thomas Watson
The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.
~ Thomas Watson
Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.
~ Thomas Watson
Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
~ Thomas Watson
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.
~ Thomas Watson
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.
~ Thomas Watson
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.
~ Thomas Watson
Si has escuchado mucho de Cristo, y todavía no puedes decir con sujeción y humildad, «mi Jesús», no te ofendas si te digo que el diablo puede recitar su credo igual de bien que tú.
~ Thomas Watson
A man may as well go to hell for not working in his calling, as for not believing.
~ Thomas Watson
He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.
~ Thomas Watson
A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence.
~ Thomas Watson
A godly person chooseth Christ and grace before the most illustrious things under the sun:
~ Thomas Watson
Some of the fathers were of opinion that every believer has his guardian angel. This subject needs no hot debate. It may suffice us to know the whole hierarchy of angels is employed for the good of the saints.
~ Thomas Watson