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The Godly Man's Picture

Thomas Watson

Top 10 Best Quotes

“To compare other things with God, is to debase Deity; as if you should compare the shining of a glow-worm with the sun. 3.”

“The world is but a great inn, where we are to stay a night or two, and be gone; what madness is it so to set our heart upon our inn, as to forget our home? 1.Consider”

“Men think it a shame to be ignorant of their trade—but no shame to be ignorant of God. There is no going to heaven blindfold.”

“Why does he send war and epidemics? What does the heat of this great anger mean? Surely dying times are to make men die to the world.”

“When we pray for grace and use opportunities to the full, this is laying a fig on the boil which will make us recover. To pray for holiness and neglect the means—is like winding up the clock and taking off the weights.”

“We shall never go to heaven when we die—unless we are in heaven while we live.”

“This judgment is on many, the earth swallows up their time, and thoughts, and discourse, they are buried twice; their hearts are buried in the earth before their bodies.”

“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).”

“A humble saint is content with that condition which God sees is best for him. A proud man complains that he has no more; a humble man wonders that he has so much: "I am not worthy of the least of all your mercies!" (Gen. 32:10).”

“A godly person chooseth Christ and grace before the most illustrious things under the sun:”

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