Quotes from Thomas Watson

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.

Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current.

This is a sign of a new nature: when a man hates what he once loved! And because he hates sin, therefore he fights against it with the "sword of the Spirit" (Eph 6:17), as a man who hates a serpent seeks the destruction of it.

The motion of our praise must be like the motion of our pulse, which beats as long as life lasts.

What is the reason the word works so differently? It is because the Spirit of God carries the word to the conscience of one and not another. One has receive the divine unction and not the other.

The sum and definition of religion is, be rich in works of mercy, be helpful to the bodies and souls of others. Scatter your golden seeds; let the lamp of your profession be filled with the oil of charity. Be merciful in giving and forgiving. 'Be ye merciful, as your heavenly Father is merciful'.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.

As therefore we cherish our salvation and the honor of true religion, let us shine in that orb of relationships where God has placed us.

If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.

There is no one member of the body breaks forth more in God's dishonour than the tongue.