Thomas Watson

Throne of Grace – Thomas Watson

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

– Thomas Watson –

Do not look upon your troubles as to forget your mercies.

– Thomas Watson –

The seeming peace a sinner has is not from the knowledge of his happiness but the ignorance of his danger.

– Thomas Watson –

By the delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken.

– 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 –

Doers of the Word are the best hearers.

– Thomas Watson –

Sin first courts, and then kills. It is first a fox and then a lion.

– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668

Malice is mental murder.

– Thomas Watson –
1620-1686

The discontented person thinks everything he doth for God too much, and everything God doth for him too little.

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