Quotes by Thomas Watson
Thomas Watson (1620–1686) — Puritanischer Prediger · Puritaner · England
Thomas Watson war ein englischer puritanischer Geistlicher des 17. Jahrhunderts, der in London wirkte und nach dem Erlass der Uniformitätsakte von 1662 als Nonkonformist predigte. Er steht für eine praxisorientierte reformierte Theologie, die er in bildhafter Sprache und pastoralen Schriften zu Themen wie Buße und Katechismuslehre entfaltete. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sein Werk pointierte, alltagsnahe Auslegungen zur christlichen Lebensführung und zum Trost in Anfechtungen.
Era: Reformation & Baroque
Recurring topics: God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Grace & Redemption, Prayer & Silence, Guilt & Forgiveness, Faith & Trust, Love, Temptation & Struggle, Growth & Character
Quotes by Thomas Watson
Prayer is the soul’s breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father.
Thomas Watson
Read the Scripture, not only as a history, but as a love-letter sent to you from God.
Thomas Watson
The angel fetched Peter out of prison, but it was prayer that fetched the angel.
Thomas Watson
When sin is your burden, Christ will be your delight.
Thomas Watson
A sight of God's glory produces humility. The stars vanish when the sun rises.
Thomas Watson
All the danger is when the world gets into the heart. The water is useful for the sailing of the ship; all the danger is when the water gets into the ship; so the fear is when the world gets into the heart.
Thomas Watson
A humble sinner is in a better condition than a proud angel.
Thomas Watson
Behold, what manner of love is this, that Christ should be arraigned and we adorned, that the curse should be laid on His head and the crown set on ours.
Thomas Watson
Death is the last and best physician, which cures all diseases and sins – the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was the midwife which brought death into the world; and death shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer!
Thomas Watson
Faith is to prayer what the feather is to the arrow.
Thomas Watson
God does not justify us because we are worthy, but by justifying us make us worthy.
Thomas Watson
We are more sure to arise out of our graves than out of our beds.
Thomas Watson
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Thomas Watson
The glory of God is a silver thread which must run through all of our actions.
Thomas Watson
Satan doth not tempt God’s children because they have sin in them, but because they have grace in them. Had they no grace, the devil would not disturb them… Though to be tempted is a trouble, yet to think why you are tempted is a comfort.
Thomas Watson
God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it. He has no design upon us, but to make us happy.
Thomas Watson
When Christ was born into the world, he was made flesh. When Christ is born in your heart, that heart is made of flesh.
Thomas Watson
He sheds tears for those that shed His blood.
Thomas Watson
God is more willing to pardon than to punish. Mercy does more multiply in Him than sin in us. Mercy is His nature.
Thomas Watson
It is more honor to bury an injury than to revenge it.
Thomas Watson
Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God’s Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.
Thomas Watson
Satan loves to fish in the troubled waters of a discontented heart.
Thomas Watson
Satan tempts to sin under a pretence of religion. He is most to be feared when he transforms himself into an angel of light. He came to Christ with Scripture in his mouth: “It is written.” The devil baits his hook with religion.
Thomas Watson
Since God has a Son of his own, and such a Son, how wonderful God’s love in adopting us! We needed a Father, but He did not need sons.
Thomas Watson
The devil would have Christ prove Himself to be God, by turning stones into bread; but the Holy Ghost shows His Godhead by turning stones into flesh (Eze. 36:26).
Thomas Watson
The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.
Thomas Watson
This life is like an inn. You spend a couple of nights there, but you never forget where your home is.
Thomas Watson
We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us. That’s His nature.
Thomas Watson
God will fill the hungry because He Himself has stirred up the hunger. As in the case of prayer, when God prepares the heart to pray, He prepares His ear to hear (Ps. 10:17). So in the case of spiritual hunger, when God prepares the heart to hunger, He will prepare His hand to fill.
Thomas Watson
Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.
Thomas Watson
Without meditation the truths which we know will never affect our hearts… As a hammer drives a nail to the head, so mediation drives a truth to the heart… Read before you meditate. “Give attendance to readings” (1 Tim. 4:13). Then it follows, “meditate upon these things” (vs. 15). Reading doth furnish with matter; it is the oil that feeds the lamp of meditation. Be sure your mediations are founded upon Scripture. Reading without meditation is unfruitful; meditation without reading is dangerous.
Thomas Watson
How slow God is to anger! He took more time to destroy Jericho than to create the world.
Thomas Watson
Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.
Thomas Watson
By delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken.
Thomas Watson
Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy.
Thomas Watson
God being a Father, if He hide His face from His child, it is in love. Desertion is sad in itself, a short hell (Job 6:9). When the light is withdrawn, dew falls. Yet we may see a rainbow in the cloud, the love of a Father in all this.
Thomas Watson
A Christian without patience is like a soldier without arms.
Thomas Watson
Faith is seated in the understanding, as well as the will. It has an eye to see Christ, as well as a wing to fly to Christ.
Thomas Watson
God has given us two ears, but one tongue, to show that we should be swift to hear, but slow to speak. God has set a double fence before the tongue, the teeth and the lips, to teach us to be wary that we offend not with our tongue.
Thomas Watson
We need not climb up into heaven to see whether our sins are forgiven: let us look into our hearts, and see if we can forgive others. If we can, we need not doubt but God as forgiven us.
Thomas Watson
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Sources: banneroftruth.org, digitalpuritan.net, wikipedia.org
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