Thomas Watson Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?

  Thomas Watson

  Wind, Soul, Hell

  Thomas Watson (1829). “Discourses on important and interesting subjects: being the select works of Thomas Watson”, p.410

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

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Heart, Hands

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

• 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.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Offering, Names

• Make up your spiritual accounts daily; see how matters stand between God and your souls (Psalm 77:6). Often reckonings keep God and conscience friends. Do with your hearts as you do with your watches, wind them up every morning by prayer, and at night examine whether your hearts have gone true all that day, whether the wheels of your affections have moved swiftly toward heaven.

  Thomas Watson

  Spiritual, Morning, Prayer

  Thomas Watson (1741). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy Six Sermons on the Lesser Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture to which is Added, the Art of Divine Contentment; Recommended to the Publishers, and Never Before Printed (except Once) in the Former Editions of this Book, Altho Printed Twenty Times by Itself”, p.173

• Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.

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  Prayer, Father, Breathing

  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.516

• Christ heals with more ease than any other. Christ makes the devil go out with a word (Mark 9:25). Nay, he can cure with a look: Christ's look melted Peter into repentance; it was a healing look. If Christ doth but cast a look upon the soul he can recover it. Therefore David prays to have a look from God, 'Look Thou upon me, and be merciful unto me' (Psalm 119:132).

  Thomas Watson

  Healing, Soul, Devil

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.21, Scripture Truth

• There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.

  Thomas Watson

  Justice, Soul, Unjust

  Thomas Watson (1692). “A Body of Practical Divinity: Consisting of Above 176 Sermons on the Lesser Catechism”, p.565

• When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts.

  Thomas Watson

  Book, Heart, Clothes

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