Quotes from Thomas Watson
Prayer delights God's ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
- Thomas Watson
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
- Thomas Watson
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.
- Thomas Watson
The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.
- Thomas Watson
Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.
- Thomas Watson
A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.
- Thomas Watson
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
Knowledge is the eye which must direct the foot of obedience.
- Thomas Watson
A spiritual prayer is a humble prayer. Prayer is the asking of an alms, which requires humility... The lower the heart descends, the higher the prayer ascends.
- Thomas Watson
God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
- Thomas Watson
God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.
- Thomas Watson
Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
- Thomas Watson