The Beatitudes Quotes

“Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you (Matthew 5:44).”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“However, a godly person in the midst of all his miseries is blessed. He may be under the cross, but he is not under a curse.”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“God has put not only an emptiness, but a bitterness into the creature, and it is good for us that there is no perfection here so that we may raise our thoughts higher to more noble and generous delights.”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord (1 Corinthians 15:58).”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to the Lord (Proverbs 16:5). There is a generation of people who commit idolatry with themselves. There is no such idol as self! They admire their own works, moralities, and self-righteousness, and upon this branch they graft the hope of their salvation. There are many people who are too good to go to heaven.”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“The flower of glory grows out of the seed of grace. Grace and glory do not differ in kind, but in degree. One is the root, and the other is the fruit. Grace is glory at dawn; glory is grace at noon.”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]

“Most people think that because God has blessed them with an estate, therefore they are blessed. Alas, God often gives these things in anger. God may grant a thing when He is angry that He does not will to give when He is calm. He loads His enemies with gold and silver, as Plutarch reports of Tarpeia, a vestal nun, who bargained with the enemy to betray the capitol of Rome to them if she could have the golden bracelets on their left hands, which they promised. Having entered into the capitol, they threw not only their golden bracelets upon her, but also their shields, and through the weight of these, she was crushed to death. God often lets people have the golden bracelets, the weight of which plunges them into hell.”
― Thomas Watson, The Beatitudes: An Exposition of Matthew 5:1-12 [Updated and Annotated]