181 Quotes by Thomas J. Watson

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

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

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

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.

Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.

A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.

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

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of ‘crackpot’ than the stigma of conformity.

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