Thomas Watson Quotes About Sin

Quotes about: Sin

• 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.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Hate, Blessing

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

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

  Thomas Watson

  Sweet, Bitter, Sin

• 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

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

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  Practice, Firsts, Sin

• 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

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

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  Christian, What If, Rust

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

• There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.

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  Adversity, Sea, Evil

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

• 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

• God's decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint's perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.

  Thomas Watson

  Christian, Perseverance, Blessing

  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.530

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