Top 100 Thomas Watson Quotes
#1. Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.
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#2. If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.
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#3. There is more evil in a drop of sin than in a sea of affliction.
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#4. The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God's people.
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#5. 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.
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#6. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
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#7. Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.
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#9. Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.
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#10. A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20
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#11. Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
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#12. 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.
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#13. If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.
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#14. As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.
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#15. He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.
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#16. A good Christian holds secret communication with heaven. Private prayer keeps up the trade of godliness. When private holiness is laid aside, a stab is given to the heart of piety.
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#17. Are there not millions of us who would rather go sleeping to hell; than sweating to heaven?
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#18. How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?
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#19. God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.
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#20. We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.
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#21. 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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#22. Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.
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#23. Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit!
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#24. It is not how much we do, but how much we love.
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#25. He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.
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#26. Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?
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#27. Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance - or the soul must burn in hell.
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#28. We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.
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#29. God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
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#30. It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.
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#31. The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.
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#32. Men are not good in truth when they are good by halves.
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#33. Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a 'fiery chariot' of zeal and violence.
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#35. If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.
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#36. None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.
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#37. He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.
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#38. Are these the duties I required? I called for the heart and spirit and you bring nothing but the carcass of duty. Should I receive this?" "The Lord says These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." Isaiah 29:13
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#39. Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
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#40. you speak of true honor, it is to be born of God; if of true valor, it is to fight the good fight of faith; if of true delight, it is to have joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, then, espouse godliness! Here reality is to be had. Of other things we may say, "They comfort in vain!" (Zech. 10:2)
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#41. As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).
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#42. This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
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#43. 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.
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#44. The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).
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#46. 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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#48. Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
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#49. Affliction has a sting, out withal a wing: sorrow shall fly away.
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#50. Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.
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#51. The serious thoughts of our short stay here would be a great means of promoting godliness. What if death should come before we are ready? What if our life should breathe out before God's Spirit has breathed in? Whoever considers how flitting and winged his life is, will hasten his repentance!
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#52. 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.
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#53. Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.
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#54. Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
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#55. Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ's blood. Father, my heart, my heart.' Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!
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#56. 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.
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#57. The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.
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#58. A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence.
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#59. Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?
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#60. It is more honour to serve God, than to have kings serve us.
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#61. By having a change wrought in thee. 'But ye are washed, but ye are sanctified.' I Cor 6: 2: Whence we are changed, a tenebris ad lucem [from darkness to light], so changed, as if another soul did live in the same body. By this change we are interested in the unchangeable
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#62. The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.
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#63. 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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#64. An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.
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#65. The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.
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#66. In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.
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#67. A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
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#68. To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
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#69. Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
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#71. 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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#72. Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.
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#73. 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? 1.Consider
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#74. The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.
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#75. An upright man is always worth beholding - but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.
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#76. Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.
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#77. 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.
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#78. To seem to be zealous, if it be not according to the word, is not obedience, but will-worship.
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#79. Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.
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#80. God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
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#82. Oh, Christian, if you are overspread with this fretting leprosy, you carry the man of sin about you, for you set yourself above God and act as if you were wiser than He, and would sassily prescribe to Him what condition is best for you.
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#83. He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.
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#84. Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion, and death for its wages.
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#85. The spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing - and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.
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#86. As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?
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#87. Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
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#88. This marriage union with Christ is the most noble and excellent union:
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#89. Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.
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#90. Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
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#91. Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
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#92. God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.
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#93. None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.
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#94. A judge judges only matters of fact, but God judges the heart. He not only judges wicked actions, but wicked designs. He sees the treason of the heart and punishes it.
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#95. If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.
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#96. Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.
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#97. It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.
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#98. Do not rest in baptism; what is it to have the water, and want the Spirit?
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#99. It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.
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#100. He that loves the world, how active is he! He will break his peace and sleep for it. He that loves honour, what hazards will he run! He will swim to the throne in blood ... Love heaven, and you cannot miss it; love breaks through all opposition-it takes heaven by storm.
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