The Christian on the Mount Quotes

“is the soul's retiring of itself, that by a serious and solemn thinking upon God, the heart may be raised up to heavenly affections.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after God.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“The Scripture is a love letter which the great God has written to us. We must not run it over in haste, but meditate upon God's wisdom in writing, and his love in sending it to us.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“Just so, Christ puts the finger of mercy upon the scars of the saints! He will not throw away his pearls for every speck of dirt! That which makes this love of Christ the more stupendous, is that there was nothing in us to excite or draw forth his love! He did not love us because we were worthy—but by loving us he made us worthy!”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“Meditation is the chewing upon the truths we have heard. The beasts in the old law which did not chew the cud were unclean; the professing Christian who does not by meditation chew the cud, is to be accounted unclean. Meditation is like the watering of the seed; it makes the fruits of grace to flourish.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“Grace breeds delight in God, and delight breeds meditation. Meditation is a duty wherein consists the essentials of religion, and which nourishes the very life-blood of it.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“In meditation there must be a staying of the thoughts upon the object. A man who rides quickly through a town or village: he minds nothing. But an artist who is looking on a curious piece views the whole portraiture of it, he observes the symmetry and proportion, he minds every shadow and color.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation

“remembrance.”
― Thomas Watson, A Christian on the Mount: A Treatise Concerning Meditation