Top 150 Thomas J. Watson Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.”

— Thomas J. Watson

52. “A Christian without meditation is like a soldier without weapons, or a workman without tools.”

— Thomas J. Watson

53. “Either sin must drown in the tears of repentance – or the soul must burn in hell.”

— Thomas J. Watson

54. “God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.”

— Thomas J. Watson

55. “Those prayers God likes best which come seething hot from the heart.”

— Thomas J. Watson

56. “The Nature of True Repentance, Part 1 I shall next show what Gospel repentance is. Repentance is a grace of God’s Spirit whereby a sinner is inwardly humbled and visibly reformed. For a further amplification, know that repentance is a spiritual medicine made up of six special ingredients: 1. Sight of sin 2. Sorrow for sin 3. Confession of sin 4. Shame for sin 5. Hatred for sin 6. Turning from sin If any one is left out, it loses its virtue.”

— Thomas J. Watson

57. “Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.”

— Thomas J. Watson

58. “Be like Noah’s dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.”

— Thomas J. Watson

59. “God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.”

— Thomas J. Watson

60. “The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.”

— Thomas J. Watson

61. “Daily bread may make us live comfortably but forgiveness of sins will make us die comfortably.”

— Thomas J. Watson

62. “You don’t hear things that are bad about your company unless you ask. It is easy to hear good tidings, but you have to scratch to get the bad news.”

— Thomas J. Watson

63. “The world rings changes, it is never constant but in its disappointments. The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home?”

— Thomas J. Watson

64. “A wicked man in prayer may lift up his hands, but he cannot lift up his face.”

— Thomas J. Watson

65. “Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting. Affliction was a sting, but withal a wing: sorrow shall soon fly away.”

— Thomas J. Watson

66. “There is justice in hell, but sin is the most unjust thing. It would rob God of his glory, Christ of his purchase, the soul of its happiness.”

— Thomas J. Watson

67. “Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint’s prayer is put into the bow of Christ’s intercession it pierces the throne of grace.”

— Thomas J. Watson

68. “How soon are we broken on the soft pillow of ease! Adam in paradise was overcome, when Job on the dunghill was a conqueror.”

— Thomas J. Watson

69. “Take every word as spoken to yourselves. When the word thunders against sin, think thus: “God means my sins;” when it presseth any duty, “God intends me in this.” Many put off Scripture from themselves, as if it only concerned those who lived in the time when it was written; but if you intend to profit by the word, bring it home to yourselves: a medicine will do no good unless it be applied.”

— Thomas J. Watson

70. “He may look on death with joy, who can look on forgiveness with faith.”

— Thomas J. Watson

71. “God’s decree is the very pillar and basis on which the saint’s perseverance depends. That decree ties the knot of adoption so fast, that neither sin, death, nor hell, can break it asunder.”

— Thomas J. Watson

72. “God will not be behind-hand in love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.”

— Thomas J. Watson

73. “The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.”

— Thomas J. Watson

74. “Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.”

— Thomas J. Watson

75. “How many souls have been blown into hell with the wind of popular applause?”

— Thomas J. Watson

76. “If you don’t genuinely like your customers, chances are they won’t buy.”

— Thomas J. Watson

77. “Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”

— Thomas J. Watson

78. “No flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.”

— Thomas J. Watson

79. “Better have men reproach you for being good, than have God damn you for being wicked. Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?”

— Thomas J. Watson

80. “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 J. Watson

81. “This kind of intense loyalty, then, became the well-spring of the IBM spirit, the family spirit as it was called.”

— Thomas J. Watson

82. “God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”

— Thomas J. Watson

83. “Though we as Christians are like Christ, having the first fruits of the spirit, yet we are unlike him, having the remainders of the flesh.”

— Thomas J. Watson

84. “None so empty of grace as he that thinks he is full.”

— Thomas J. Watson

85. “The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.”

— Thomas J. Watson

86. “Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!”

— Thomas J. Watson

87. “Humility was never a loser.”

— Thomas J. Watson

88. “The Ediles among the Romans had their doors always standing open, that all who had petitions might have free access to them. The door of heaven is always open for the prayers of God’s people.”

— Thomas J. Watson

89. “Father, my heart, my heart; my dead heart, quicken it; my hard heart, soften it in Christ’s blood. Father, my heart, my heart.’ Surely God, who hears the cry of ravens, will hear the cry of his children!”

— Thomas J. Watson

90. “The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.”

— Thomas J. Watson

91. “Loyalty saves the wear and tear of making daily decisions as to what is best to do.”

— Thomas J. Watson

92. “Joining a company is an act that calls for absolute loyalty in big matters and little ones.”

— Thomas J. Watson

93. “The more we enjoy of God, the more we are ravished with delight.”

— Thomas J. Watson

94. “Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.”

— Thomas J. Watson

95. “Though God is the fountain of grace – yet the saints are the pipes which transmit the living streams to others.”

— Thomas J. Watson

96. “What if we have more of the rough file, if we have less rust! Afflictions carry away nothing but the dross of sin.”

— Thomas J. Watson

97. “In a word a contented Christian, being sweetly captivated under the authority of the Word, desires to be wholly at God’s disposal and is willing to live in that sphere and climate where God has set him.”

— Thomas J. Watson

98. “He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.”

— Thomas J. Watson

99. “To have a thankful heart for deliverance is a greater blessing than the deliverance itself.”

— Thomas J. Watson

100. “The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.”

— Thomas J. Watson