Thomas Watson

It is easy to commit idolatry with the creature.

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Some drops of love may run beside the creature, but the full stream must run towards God.

The lover's effort to please the beloved, this is love.

We please God when we dedicate our hearts to give him the best of everything.

We please God when we serve him with love, fervency, and alacrity.

Another makes a god of his child, sets his child in God's room, and so provokes God to take it away. If you lean too hard upon a glass it will break, so many break their children by leaning too hard upon them. - Thomas Watson

Such as make morality the chief and sole part of religion, set the second table above the first; nay, they take away the first table.

He often does more than he has said, never less. He is abundant in truth.

Mercy makes the promise, truth fulfils it.

He that could bring water out of a rock is able to bring to pass his promises.

Mercy should be the attraction of love.

Plead Christ's satisfaction, and this is an argument that God cannot deny.

Let practice go along with profession. - Thomas Watson

Nothing is sweeter than mercy, when it is improved; nothing fiercer, when it is abused.

To sin because mercy abounds is the Devil's logic.

"Satan is content that you should be hearing and praying Christians, just so long as you are not meditating Christians." Thomas Watson (@ThosWatson)

Take heed of abusing the mercy of God. Suck not poison out of the sweet flower of God's mercy. Think not that because God is merciful, you may go on in sin; this is to make mercy your enemy.

Why dost thou not believe in God's mercy? Do thy sins discourage thee? God's mercy can pardon great sins, nay, because they are great.

Faith and love are the two poles on which all religion turns. - Thomas Watson