Thomas Watson Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Thomas Watson on Wise Famous Quotes.
God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.
To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.
Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.
God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.
Contentment doth not appear only now and then, as some stars which are seen but seldom; it is a settled temper of heart.
There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory. Matthew 12:20
God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.
None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; 'And hangeth the earth upon nothing.' Job 26: 7.
A hypocritical faith is lame on one hand. With one hand it would take up Christ. But it does not with the other hand give itself up to Christ.
Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.
What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.
This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.
Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.
It is easy to catch a disease from another, but not to catch health. The bad will sooner corrupt the good, than the good will convert the bad.
They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.
Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
An idle person is the devil's tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation until at last the ball goes out of play.
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
If a wicked man seems to have peace at death, it is not from the knowledge of his happiness, but from the ignorance of his danger.
What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?