Affliction quickens the spirit of prayer. Jonah was asleep in the ship—but at prayer in the whale’s belly! Perhaps in a time of health and prosperity we pray in a cold and formal manner—we put no coals to the incense; we scarcely minded our own prayers, and how should God mind them?Then God sends some cross or other affliction to make us take hold of Him. Now their prayers pierced the heavens! In times of trouble, we pray earnestly and fervently.
– Thomas Watson –
One hour in Heaven will make us forget all our sorrows! As the sun dries up the water, so one beam of God’s glorious face will dry up all our tears!
– Thomas Watson –
Praising God is one of the highest and purest acts of religion. In prayer we act like men; in praise we act like angels.
– Thomas Watson –
Heaven will make amends for all!
– Thomas Watson –
Our mercies far outweigh our afflictions. For one affliction—we have a thousand mercies! The sea of God’s mercy swallows up our few drops of affliction!
– Thomas Watson –
See how happy are God’s saints at their death! They go to a kingdom! They see God’s face, which shines ten thousand times brighter than the sun in its meridian glory! They enter eternal glory, which is the quintessence of all delights!
– 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 –