Top 150 Thomas J. Watson Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.”

— Thomas J. Watson

52. “God takes away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.”

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

55. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

58. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

63. “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

64. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

67. “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

68. “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

69. “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

70. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

73. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

76. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

80. “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

81. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

83. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

86. “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

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

— Thomas J. Watson

88. “Humility was never a loser.”

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— 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. “King’s crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.”

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson

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

— Thomas J. Watson