Quotes from Thomas Watson
We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?
- Thomas Watson
Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will.
- Thomas Watson
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use
- Thomas Watson
Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.
- Thomas Watson
The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
- Thomas Watson
The gospel sweetens the law.
- Thomas Watson
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.
- Thomas Watson
Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.
- Thomas Watson
A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!
- Thomas Watson
We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.
- Thomas Watson
Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.
- Thomas Watson
Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.
- Thomas Watson