Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Watson
“Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!”
“If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!”
“If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?”
“We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.”
“In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God's disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.”
“When we profess God’s name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.”
“Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“There are no sins God’s people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“We love a saint, though he has many personal failings. There is no perfection here. In some, rash anger prevails; in some, inconstancy; in some, too much love of the world. A saint in this life is like gold in the ore, much dross of infirmity cleaves to him, yet we love him for the grace that is in him. A saint is like a fair face with a scar: we love the beautiful face of holiness, though there be a scar in it. The best emerald has its blemishes, the brightest stars their twinklings, and the best of the saints have their failings. You that cannot love another because of his infirmities, how would you have God love you?”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things For Good
“King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from The Lord's Supper
“The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from The Lord's Supper
“God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from The Lord's Supper
“No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.”
― Thomas Watson ,
from All Things for Good
“A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.”
“Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: “God means my sins;” when it presseth any duty, “God intends me in this.” Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.”
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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.