Quotes about Hope
You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.
— Thomas Watson
The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.
— Thomas Watson
As our sin is ever before us, so God's promise must be ever before us. As we much feel our sting, so we must look up to Christ, our "brazen serpent" (Num 21:8-9).
— Thomas Watson
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
God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
— Thomas Watson
A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out, till he leads justice to victory." Matthew 12:20
— Thomas Watson
Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.
— Thomas Watson
A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you . . . I will be your God" (Ezek. 36:26,28).
— Thomas Watson
The ship which lies at anchor may sometimes be a little shaken—but never sinks; flesh and blood may have its fears and disquiets—but grace keeps them afloat. A Christian, having cast anchor in heaven, his heart never sinks.
— Thomas Watson
Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.
— Thomas Watson
After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.
— Thomas Watson
Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.
— Josh McDowell