“If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.”1
“Prayer delights God’s ear; it melts His heart; and opens His hand. God cannot deny a praying soul.”
“Afflictions add to the saints’ glory. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles; the heavier the saints’ cross is, the heavier will be their crown.”
“Let them fear death who do not fear sin.”
“Leave not off reading the Bible till you find your hearts warmed. Read the word, not only as a history, but labor to be affected with it. Let it not only inform you, but inflame you. “Is not my word like a fire? saith the Lord”: Jer 23:29. Go not from the word till you can say as those disciples, “Did not our hearts burn within us?” Lu 24:32.”
“God loves a broken heart, not a divided heart.”
“The apostles went away rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for the name of Christ, that they were graced so far as to be disgraced for the name of Christ!”
“The right manner of growth is to grow less in one’s own eyes.”
“The flesh inclines us more to believe a temptation than a promise.”
“Soon the battle will be over. It will not be long now before the day will come when Satan will no longer trouble us. There will be no more domination, temptation, accusation, or confrontation. Our warfare will be over and our commander, Jesus Christ, will call us away from the battlefield to receive the victor’s crown.”
“Our murmuring is the devil’s music.”
“Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.”
“The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.”
“A man’s greatest care should be for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.”
“Eternity to the godly is a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no sunrise.”
“Affliction promotes holiness. The more the diamond is cut, the more it sparkles!”
“God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.”
“Read not the word carelessly, but with seriousness and affection; as the oracle of heaven, the well of salvation, the book of life.”
“What a vast difference is there between the first covenant and the second! In the first covenant it was, if you commit sin you die; in the second it is, if you confess sin you shall have mercy.”
“A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God’s service.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
131 Thomas Watson Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info