Books by Thomas Watson

“Mercy is not like the sun to the fire, to dull it, but like the oil to the wheel, to make it run faster.”

“A hard heart is the anvil on which the hammer of God’s justice will be striking to all eternity.”

“A gracious heart is like a piece of good ground that, having received the seed of mercy, produces a crop of obedience.”

“It is not enough to have a few transient thoughts of God by the by, but there must be a fixing of our minds on God, till our hearts are warmed in love to him, and we can say, like those in Like 24:32, 'Did not our heart burn within us?”

“An idle person is the devil’s tennis ball, which he bandies up and down with temptation till at last the ball goes out of play.”

“Faith is the oil which feeds the lamp of hope. Faith and hope are two turtle-dove graces; take away one, and the other languishes. If the sinews are cut, the body is lame; if this sinew of faith is cut, hope is lame.”