All Things for Good Quotes

“We must love God more for what He is, than for what He bestows.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Better is that sin which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“The worst that God does to His children is to whip them to heaven.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“The mercies of God make a sinner proud, but a saint humble.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things For Good

“It is better to go to heaven with a few, than to hell in the crowd.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“If you set your love on worldly things, they will not satisfy.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“It is not how much we do, but how much we love.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“We may hold the world as a posy in our hand, but it must not lie too near our heart.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“We love a saint, though he has many personal failings. There is no perfection here. In some, rash anger prevails; in some, inconstancy; in some, too much love of the world. A saint in this life is like gold in the ore, much dross of infirmity cleaves to him, yet we love him for the grace that is in him. A saint is like a fair face with a scar: we love the beautiful face of holiness, though there be a scar in it. The best emerald has its blemishes, the brightest stars their twinklings, and the best of the saints have their failings. You that cannot love another because of his infirmities, how would you have God love you?”
― Thomas Watson, All Things For Good

“The ordinary means which the Lord uses in calling us, is not by raptures and revelations,”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“There are no sins God’s people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“No man did ever come off a loser by his acquaintance with God.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Sin is like a poison, which corrupts the blood, infects the heart, and without a sovereign Antidote, brings death. Such is the venomous nature of sin, it is deadly and damning. Sin is worse than hell, but yet God, by His mighty overruling power, makes sin in the issue turn to the good of His people. Hence the golden saying of Augustine, ‘God would never permit evil, if He could not bring good out of evil.’” - Thomas Watson”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Those who are patterns of mercy should be trumpets of praise.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“He who is called of God, walks directly contrary to what he did before.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“The God whom we worship is holy, the work we are employed in is holy, the place we hope to arrive at is holy; all this calls for holiness.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“God may chastise, but He cannot hate.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28

“Christ’s prayer takes away the sins of our prayers. As a child, says Ambrose, that is willing to present his father with a posy, goes into the garden, and there gathers some flowers and some weeds together, but coming to his mother, she picks out the weeds and binds the flowers, and so it is presented to the father: thus when we have put up our prayers, Christ comes, and picks away the weeds, the sin of our prayer, and presents nothing but flowers to His Father, which are a sweet-smelling savour.
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― Thomas Watson, A Divine Cordial

“igual que las severas heladas en el invierno conducen a las flores en la primavera, y al igual que la noche da lugar a la estrella de la mañana, así también los males de la aflicción producen mucho bien a aquellos que aman a Dios.”
― Thomas Watson, Consolación Divina

“A sinner crowds God out of his thoughts. He never thinks of God, unless with horror, as the prisoner thinks of the judge.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Better is that temptation which humbles me, than that duty which makes me proud.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Affliction teaches what sin is. In the word preached, we hear what a dreadful thing sin is, that it is both defiling and damning, but we fear it no more than a painted lion; therefore God lets loose affliction, and then we feel sin bitter in the fruit of it. A sick-bed often teaches more than a sermon.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God’s service.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“A good Christian is not a grave to bury God’s mercies, but a temple to sing His praises.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing’ (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“None but the godly are capable of desertion. Wicked men know not what God’s love means, nor what it is to want it. They know what it is to want health, friends, trade, but not what it is to want God’s favour. You fear you are not God’s child because you are deserted. The Lord cannot be said to withdraw His love from the wicked, because they never had it. The being deserted evidences you to be a child of God. How could you complain that God has estranged Himself, if you had not sometimes received smiles and tokens of love from Him?”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good

“Conscience is God’s diocese, where none has right to visit, but He who is the Bishop of our souls (1 Peter 2:25”
― Thomas Watson, All Things for Good