Thomas Watson Quotes

Repentance is never out of season.

When zeal like incense burns, first the lamp of knowledge must be lighted.

There is nothing that can hurt the soul but sin; it is not affliction that hurts it, it often makes it better, as the furnace makes gold the purer; but it is sin that damnifies.

The two great graces essential to a saint in this life are faith and repentance. These are the two wings by which he flies to heaven.

Just so is the case of many; God gives them precious time in which they are to provide for a kingdom, and they waste this time of life and cut it all into chips. Let this excite violence in the things of God. It is the main errand of our living here...

"The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved" (2 Peter 3:12), but not that truth which came from heaven (1 Peter 1:25)

In Adam we all suffered shipwreck and repentance is the only plank left us after shipwreck to swim to heaven.

The excellence of a thing is the end for which it was made; as of a star to give light, and of a plant to be fruitful. So the excellence of a Christian is to answer the end of his creation, which is to hallow God’s name, and live to that God by whom he lives.

Though the way of religion has thorns in it with respect to persecution, yet it is full of roses with respect to that inward peace and contentment that the soul finds in it.

Seriousness is the Christian's ballast which keeps him from being overturned with vanity.

Repentance is a grace of God's Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed.

...too much leniency emboldens sin...

The first sermon that Christ preached, indeed, the first word of his sermon was 'Repent'.

Though heaven be given us freely, yet we must contend for it, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might" (Eccl. 9:10)

Truth is unerring; it is the star which leads to Christ. Truth is pure (Psa 119:140)