Thomas Watson Quotes About Christianity

Quotes about: Christianity

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

  Thomas Watson

  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

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

  Thomas Watson

  Sunset, Godly, Night

• 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

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

  Thomas Watson

  Practice, Firsts, Sin

• How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.

  Thomas Watson

  Jobs, Broken, Overcoming

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.39, Scripture Truth

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

  Thomas Watson

  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

• Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.

  Thomas Watson

  Prayer, Angel, Men

  Thomas Watson “A Body of Divinity”, Lulu.com

• 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?

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Damn You, Laughing

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

• None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.

  Thomas Watson

  Thinking, Grace, Missionary

  Thomas Watson, Hamilton Smith (2009). “Extracts from the Writings of Thomas Watson”, p.91, Scripture Truth

• What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, What If, Rust

  Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good”, p.18, Ravenio Books

• 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?

  Thomas Watson

  Disappointment, Home, Heart

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

• 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

• If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.

  Thomas Watson

  Ignorance, Men, Wicked

  Thomas Watson (1829). “Discourses on Important and Interesting Subjects: Being the Select Works of Thomas Watson”, p.347

• Our murmuring is the devil's music.

  Thomas Watson

  Devil, Murmuring, Christianity

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

• Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.

  Thomas Watson

  Faith, Christian, Fruits Of The Spirit

  Thomas Watson (1794). “A Body of Practical Divinity Consisting of Above One Hundred and Seventy-six Sermons on the Shorter Catechism Composed by the Reverend Assembly of Divines at Westminster: With a Supplement of Some Sermons on Several Texts of Scripture Together with the Art of Divine Contentment ; to which is Added, Christ's Various Fulness”, p.98

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

  Thomas Watson

  Men, Light, Torches

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