The Ten Commandments Quotes

“Ministers can but speak to the ear, the Spirit speaks to the heart.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“The prayer that is faithless is fruitless.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“If God should show mercy only to such as deserve it, he must show mercy to none.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Obedience without knowledge is blind, and knowledge without obedience is lame.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“The word preached is not only to inform you but reform you;”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“If we do not regard God when he speaks to us, he will not regard us when we pray to him.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“When promises are verified, God’s truth is magnified.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“God comes down to us by his Spirit, and we go up to him by prayer.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“If we bring forth any good fruit, it is not of our own growth, it comes from him, the true vine.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“A pagan sins less than a baptised renegade.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“If God justify a man, who shall condemn him? But if God condemn him, who shall justify him?”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“When we profess God’s name, but do not live answerably to it, we take it in vain.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“We pray most fervently when we pray most feelingly.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Every time we draw our breath we suck in mercy.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“The world can create trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments: The Expansive Commentary Collection

“The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“He that leaves off prayer leaves off to fear God.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“As no flattery can heal a bad conscience, so no slander can hurt a good one.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“love ‘thinketh no evil.’ 1 Cor 13: 5. It puts the best interpretation upon another’s words.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“An estate may be imparted without being impaired.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Grace makes the heart tender, it causes sympathy and charity. As it melts the heart in contrition towards God, so in compassion towards others.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“As children grow older, the care of parents grows greater. They are afraid of their children falling when young, and of worse than falls when they are older.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Were our love more set upon the preached word, our minds would be more fixed upon it; and surely there is enough to make us love the word preached; for it is the word of life, the inlet to knowledge, the antidote against sin, the quickener of all holy affections.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“Some complain they find no benefit by the word preached; perhaps they did not pray for their minister as they should.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“The Lord hates that which is forced; which is paying a tax rather than an offering.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments

“He who loves money is not weary of telling it: and he who loves God is not weary of serving him.”
― Thomas Watson, The Ten Commandments