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1. "The bare knowledge of God's will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God's will, but he was a traitor." ~ Thomas Watson

2. "God sweetens outward pain with inward peace." ~ Thomas Watson

3. "When you find a chillness upon your souls, and that your former heat begins to abate, ply yourselves with warm clothes, get those good books that may acquaint you with such truths as may warm and affect your hearts." ~ Thomas Watson

4. "It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!" ~ Thomas Watson

5. "A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ." ~ Thomas Watson

6. "[Concerning the Word preached:] Do we prize it in our judgments? Do we receive in into our hearts? Do we fear the loss of the Word preached more than the loss of peace and trade? Is it the removal of the ark that troubles us? Again, do we attend to the Word with reverential devotion? When the judge is giving the charge on the bench, all attend. When the Word is preached, the great God is giving us his charge. Do we listen to it as to a matter of life and death? This is a good sign that we love the Word." ~ Thomas Watson

7. "The gospel sweetens the law." ~ Thomas Watson

8. "Unless we deny our own will, we shall never do God's will." ~ Thomas Watson

9. "Men could be content to have the kingdom of heaven; but they are loathe to fight for it. They choose rather to go in a feather bed to hell than to be carried to heaven in a ‘fiery chariot' of zeal and violence." ~ Thomas Watson

10. "A man may read the figure on the dial, but he cannot tell how the day goes, unless the sun shines upon the dial: we may read the Bible over, but we can not learn the purpose, till the Spirit of God shines into our hearts. O implore this blessed Spirit! It is God's prerogative-royal to teach: "I am the Lord thy God, which teacheth thee to profit." Is. 48. 17. Ministers may tell us our lesson, God only can teach us; we have lost both our hearing and eye-sight, therefore are very unfit to learn. Ever since Eve listened to the serpent, we have been deaf; and since she looked on the tree of knowledge we have been blind; but when God comes to teach, he removes these impediments." ~ Thomas Watson

11. "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." ~ Thomas Watson

12. "We pray, 'lead us not into temptation'. Do we then lead ourselves into temptation?" ~ Thomas Watson

13. "A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!" ~ Thomas Watson

14. "It is our work to cast care, and it is God's work to take care." ~ Thomas Watson

15. "Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace." ~ Thomas Watson

16. "The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains." ~ Thomas Watson

17. "Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise." ~ Thomas Watson

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What is dying?I am standing on the seashore.A ship sails to the morning breeze and starts for the ocean.She is an object and I stand watching herTill at last she fades from the horizon,And someone at my side says, "She is gone!" Gone where?Gone from my sight, that is all;She is just as large in the masts, hull and spars as she was when I saw her,And just as able to bear her load of living freight to its destination.The diminished size and total loss of sight is in me, not in her;And just at the moment when someone at my side says, "She is gone",There are others who are watching her coming,And other voices take up a glad shout,"There she comes" – and that is dying."
Author: Charles Henry Brent