Daily Christian quotes to direct, inspire, encourage, and help ordinary Christians in the rough and tumble of their daily lives!
Get good books into your houses. When you have not the spring near to you, then get water into your cistern. So when you have not that wholesome preaching that you desire, good books are cisterns that hold the waters of life in them to refresh you.
— Thomas Watson
“Mr. Watson’s Afternoon Sermon, August 17, 1662”
in Calamy, Farewell Sermons
More quotes from Thomas Watson
Let no man talk of a revelation from the Spirit; the Spirit of God acts by the word, and he who pretends to a new light which is above the word, or contrary to it, deceives himself and dishonors the Spirit, his light being borrowed from him who “made himself an angel of light.”
— Thomas Watson (1620-1686), “Puritan Gems”
Mercy sweetens all God’s other attributes. God’s holiness without mercy, and his justice without mercy, would be terrible.
— Thomas Watson (1620-1686)
Keep your heart as you would keep a Garden. Your heart is a garden (Song of Solomon 4:12); weed all sin out of your heart. Among the flowers of the heart, weeds will be growing—the weeds of pride, malice, and covetousness: these grow without planting and cultivating. Therefore be weeding your heart daily by prayer, examination, and repentance.
— Thomas Watson
A Christian should keep two books always by him, one in which to write his sins, that he may be made humble; the other in which to write his mercies, that he may be kept thankful.
— Thomas Watson
