Thomas Watson Quotes

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.

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

Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.

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

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.

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

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

That preaching is to be preferred which makes the truest discovery of men's sins and shows them their hearts.

...too much leniency emboldens sin...

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

Truth is an antidote against error. Error is the adultery of the mind.

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). Our work is great, our time short, our Master urgent. We have need therefore to summon together all the powers of our souls and strive as in a matter of life and death, that we may arrive at the kingdom above.

Truth has noble effects. Truth is the seed of the new birth. God does not regenerate us by miracles or revelations, but by the word of truth (James 1:18). As truth is the breeder of grace, so it is the feeder of it (1Ti 4:6). Truth sanctifies: "Sanctify them through Thy truth" (John 17:17).

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.