Thomas Watson Quotes

Repentance is never out of season.

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

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.

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.

Obedience carries in it the life-blood of religion.

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

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

...the vinegar of the law, then the wine of the gospel...

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

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...

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 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)

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.

We may read many truths in the Bible, but we cannot know them savingly, till God by his Spirit shines upon our soul.