Quotes from Thomas Watson

None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.

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

O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.

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?

Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.

It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade—but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.

The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.

A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.

The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.

He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.

The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.