Top 150 Thomas J. Watson Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Upon our turning to God, we have more restored to us in Christ – than ever was lost in Adam. God says to the repenting soul, “I will clothe you with the robe of righteousness; I will enrich you with the jewels and graces of my Spirit. I will bestow my love upon you! I will give you a kingdom! Son, all I have is yours!”

— Thomas J. Watson

102. “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

103. “He who does not believe God’s promises – will never love him.”

— Thomas J. Watson

104. “Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!”

— Thomas J. Watson

105. “What is the duty which God requireth of man? Obedience to his revealed will. It is not enough to hear God’s voice, but we must obey. Obedience is a part of the honour we owe to God.”

— Thomas J. Watson

106. “To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.”

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107. “When we profess God’s name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.”

— Thomas J. Watson

108. “We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.”

— Thomas J. Watson

109. “No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.”

— Thomas J. Watson

110. “Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.”

— Thomas J. Watson

111. “Neither deficiencies nor disappointments, losses nor crosses, can cause disquieting discontents in that bosom where faith is commander in chief.”

— Thomas J. Watson

112. “The race is short between the cradle and the grave!”

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113. “It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.”

— Thomas J. Watson

114. “If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?”

— Thomas J. Watson

115. “Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade – but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.”

— Thomas J. Watson

116. “A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord’s battles, he is Christ’s ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!”

— Thomas J. Watson

117. “An upright man is always worth beholding – but then he is most to be admired when like a bright star, he shines in the dark, and having lost all, he holds fast his integrity.”

— Thomas J. Watson

118. “As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.”

— Thomas J. Watson

119. “A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.”

— Thomas J. Watson

120. “We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.”

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121. “You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.”

— Thomas J. Watson

122. “Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.”

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123. “Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.”

— Thomas J. Watson

124. “The bare knowledge of God’s will is inefficacious, it doth not better the heart. Knowledge alone is like a winter sun, which hath no heat or influence; it doth not warm the affections, or purify the conscience. Judas was a great luminary, he knew God’s will, but he was a traitor.”

— Thomas J. Watson

125. “If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.”

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126. “Many Christians are like sieves. Put a sieve into the water, and it is full; but take it out of the water, and it all runs out. So, while they are hearing the sermon, they remember something of value. But, like the sieve, as soon as they have left the church, all is forgotten.”

— Thomas J. Watson

127. “Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.”

— Thomas J. Watson

128. “What greater dignity can be put upon a mortal man, than to converse with his Maker, and to walk with God every day?”

— Thomas J. Watson

129. “The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.”

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130. “A Christian is commanded to warm-hearted service; he must charge through the whole army of his lusts, every one of which is stronger than Goliath.”

— Thomas J. Watson

131. “None can do as God; he brought the world out of nothing; ‘And hangeth the earth upon nothing.’ Job 26: 7.”

— Thomas J. Watson

132. “Christians are condemned who profess to own God for their God and yet do not live as if he were their God.”

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133. “Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.”

— Thomas J. Watson

134. “He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.”

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135. “If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.”

— Thomas J. Watson

136. “When promises are verified, God’s truth is magnified.”

— Thomas J. Watson

137. “We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.”

— Thomas J. Watson

138. “It is not how much we do, but how much we love.”

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139. “Lusts within are worse than lions without.”

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140. “Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.”

— Thomas J. Watson

141. “God may chastise, but He cannot hate.”

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142. “If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.”

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143. “An estate may be imparted without being impaired.”

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144. “The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.”

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145. “The word preached is not only to inform you but reform you;.”

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146. “O let us look to our ends in obedience; it is possible the action may be right, and not the heart.”

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147. “It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.”

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148. “Who can have a better right to us than he that gives us our breath?”

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149. “Were our love more set upon the preached word, our minds would be more fixed upon it; and surely there is enough to make us love the word preached; for it is the word of life, the inlet to knowledge, the antidote against sin, the quickener of all holy affections.”

— Thomas J. Watson

150. “The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.”

— Thomas J. Watson