Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Watson
“Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.”
― Thomas Watson ,
“Morality shoots short of heaven. It is only nature refined. A moral man is but old Adam dressed in fine clothes. The king's image counterfeited and stamped upon brass will not go current.”
“It is better that men should reproach you for repenting than that God should damn you for not repenting.”
“When men have hearts of stone and foreheads of brass—it is a sign that the devil has taken full possession of them.”
― Thomas Watson ,
“It was a witty fiction of the poets, that when Mercury had cast Argus into a sleep and with an enchanted wand closed his eyes, he then killed him. When Satan has by his witcheries lulled men asleep in sloth, then he destroys them. Some report that while the crocodile sleeps with its mouth open, the Indian rat gets into its belly and eats up its entrails. So while men sleep in security they are devoured.”
― Thomas Watson ,
“Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.”
― Thomas Watson ,
“They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing’ (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“None but the godly are capable of desertion. Wicked men know not what God’s love means, nor what it is to want it. They know what it is to want health, friends, trade, but not what it is to want God’s favour. You fear you are not God’s child because you are deserted. The Lord cannot be said to withdraw His love from the wicked, because they never had it. The being deserted evidences you to be a child of God. How could you complain that God has estranged Himself, if you had not sometimes received smiles and tokens of love from Him?”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
topics: affliction
“Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“Where there is union in fundamentals, there ought to be union in affections.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“Do not rest in baptism; what is it to have the water, and want the Spirit?”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“A good Christian is not a grave to bury God’s mercies, but a temple to sing His praises.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God’s service.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from Consolación Divina
“He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“This light does that which no other light can. It makes a man perceive himself to be blind.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“Evangelical obedience is true in its essence, though not perfect in its degree; and where it comes short, Christ puts his merits into the scales, and then there is full weight.”
“If you speak of true honor, it is to be born of God; if of true valor, it is to fight the good fight of faith; if of true delight, it is to have joy in the Holy Spirit. Oh, then, espouse godliness! Here reality is to be had. Of other things we may say, "They comfort in vain!" (Zech. 10:2)”
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He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen year pastorate at St. Stephen's, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love's plot to recall Charles II of England.
He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for nonconformity. Not withstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a license to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.
Thomas Watson was an English, non-conformist, Puritan preacher and author.
He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen year pastorate at St. Stephen's, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love's plot to recall Charles II of England.
He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen's Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for nonconformity. Not withstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a license to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.