Thomas Watson Quotes

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• When God calls a man, He does not repent of it. God does not, as many friends do, love one day, and hate another; or as princes, who make their subjects favourites, and afterwards throw theminto prison. This is the blessedness of a saint; his condition admits of no alteration. God's call is founded upon His decree, and His decree is immutable. Acts of grace cannot be reversed.God blots out His people's sins, but not their names.

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  Christian, Hate, Blessing

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.75, Ravenio Books

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

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  Men, Light, Torches

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

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  Christian, Jesus, Grace

  Thomas Watson, R. Armstrong (1816). “The Christian Soldier: Or, Heaven Taken by Storm, Shewing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. To which is Added: The Happiness of Drawing Near to God, and The Saint's Desire to be with Christ”, p.25

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

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  Sunset, Godly, Night

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• Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

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  Sweet, Bitter, Sin

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• Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.

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  Father, Devil, Wages

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Practical Divinity in a Series of Sermons on the Shorter Catechism”, Lulu.com

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• God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

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  Religious, Pain, Inward

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.22, Gideon House Books

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• Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.

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  Prayer, Heart, Hands

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

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

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  Christian, Blessing, Men

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• The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.

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  Prayer, Angel, Prison

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• A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

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  Strong, Christ, Weak

  Thomas Watson (2012). “The Holy Eucharist, or, the Mystery of the Lord’s Supper Briefly Explained”, p.82, Puritan Publications

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• First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it.

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  Practice, Firsts, Sin

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• Our murmuring is the devil's music.

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  Devil, Murmuring, Christianity

  Thomas Watson (1829). “The Art of Divine Contentement”, p.112

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• Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.

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  Adversity, Affliction, May

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

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  Gone, Sin, Pleasure

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.568

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• Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?

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  Men, Damn You, Laughing

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Great Gain of Godliness”, p.11, Lulu.com

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• The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. 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?

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  Disappointment, Home, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.78, Scripture Truth

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• Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.

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  Prayer, Offering, Names

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• This crown of free will is fallen from our head" and "If it be God's purpose that saves then it is not free will.

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  Purpose, Crowns, Free Will

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• 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!

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  Stars, Angel, Noble

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• God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

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• The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

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  Eye, Grace, Growth

  Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.246

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• Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

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  Prayer, Arrows, Grace

  Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.

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  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

  Thomas Watson, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor “The Godly Man's Picture”, Lulu.com

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• Thus it is in hell; they would die, but they cannot. The wicked shall be always dying but never dead; the smoke of the furnacedascends for ever and ever. Oh! who can endure thus to be ever upon the rack? This word "ever" breaks the heart. Wicked men do now think the Sabbaths long, and think a prayer long; but oh! how long will it be to lie in hell for ever and ever?

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  Christian, Prayer, Lying

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