Quotes from Thomas Watson

If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?

He who does not believe God's promises—will never love him.

Humility was never a loser.

We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.

When we profess God's name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.

Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ's blood. Father, my heart, my heart.' Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!

Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ—than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the repenting soul, "I will clothe you with the robe of righteousness; I will enrich you with the jewels and graces of my Spirit. I will bestow my love upon you! I will give you a kingdom! Son, all I have is yours!

If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.

In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.

God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.