The Lord's Supper Quotes

“A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Our sins should humble us, but they must not discourage us from coming to Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Be like Noah's dove. She made use of her wings to fly, but trust in the ark for safety.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Humility was never a loser.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“King's crowns are only crosses, but the cross of Christ is the only crown.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“The jewel of faith is always put in the cabinet of a good conscience.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Has Christ provided such a blessed banquet for us? He does not nurse us abroad—but feeds us with His own breast—nay, with His own blood! Let us, then, study to respond to this great love of Christ. It is true, we can never parallel His love. Yet let us show ourselves thankful. We can do nothing satisfactory—but we may do something out of gratitude. Christ gave Himself as a sin-offering for us. Let us give ourselves as a thank-offering for Him. If a man redeems another out of debt—will he not be grateful? How deeply do we stand obliged to Christ—who has redeemed us from hell!”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Do they think the tree of blessing will drop its fruit into their mouth when they never shook it by prayer? God does not set His mercies at so low a rate as to cast them away upon those who do not seek them, Ezekiel 36:37.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“It was more for Christ to suffer one hour than for us to have suffered forever.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Why do we pray in the plural, 'Give us' [i.e. Lord's Prayer]? Why is it not said, give me?

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It reproves narrow-spirited men who move within their own sphere only; who look only at themselves, and mind not the case of others; who leave others out of their prayers; if they have daily bread, they care not though others starve; if they are clothed, they care not though others go naked. Christ taught us to pray for others, to say, 'Give us;' but selfish persons are shut up within themselves, as the snail in the shell, and never speak a word in prayer for others.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“A hypocritical faith is lame on one hand. With one hand it would take up Christ. But it does not with the other hand give itself up to Christ.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Jesus Christ is a lily of the valley, Song of Solomon 2:1, not of the mountains.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper

“Bad aims will spoil good actions.”
― Thomas Watson, The Lord's Supper