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Quotes by Thomas Watson

101

Idleness tempts the devil to tempt.

102

The devil tempts, that he may deceive; but God suffers us to be tempted, to try us. Temptation is a trial of our sincerity.

103

God the Father is called the “God of peace” (Hebrews 13:20). God the Son, the “Prince of peace” (Isaiah 9:6). God the Holy Ghost, the “Spirit…of peace” (Ephesians 4:3).

104

When a man has judged himself, Satan is put out of office. When he lays anything to a saint’s charge, he is able to retort and say, “It is true, Satan, I am guilty of these sins, but I have judged myself already for them; and having condemned myself in the lower court of conscience, God will acquit me in the upper court of heaven.

105

It is absurd to think that anything in us could have the least influence upon our election. Some say that God did foresee that such persons would believe, and therefore did choose them; so they would make the business of salvation to depend upon something in us. Whereas God does not choose us FOR faith, but TO faith. “He hath chosen us, that we should be holy,” (Ephesians 1:4), not because we would be holy, but that we might be holy. We are elected to holiness, not for it.

106

What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath.

107

Let them fear death who do not fear sin.

108

Sin has the devil for its father, shame for its companion and death for its wages.

109

The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.

110

Our forgiving others is not a cause of God’s forgiving us, but it is a condition without which He will not forgive us (Mt. 6:12).

111

The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ!

112

Our work is great, our time short, and our Master urgent.

113

God would never permit any evil if he could not bring good out of evil.

114

We may force our Lord to punish us, but we will never have to force Him to love us. That’s His nature.

115

It is more honor to bury an injury than to revenge it.

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