Quotes from Thomas Watson

Knowledge without repentance will be but a torch to light men to hell.

A man's greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

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.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.

Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.

It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care.

It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!