Quotes about Spirituality
Indeed faith deals with invisibles, but God hates that love which is invisible.
— Thomas Watson
Can the spouse be better than in her husband's company? Where can the soul be better than in drawing near to God?
— Thomas Watson
the spiritualizing of duty gives life to it. Without this it is only dead praying, dead hearing—and dead things are not pleasing. A dead flower has no beauty, a dead breast has no sweetness.
— Thomas Watson
is a command of God to pray without ceasing, 1 Thess. 5:17. The meaning is—not that we should be always praying—but that we should every day set some time apart for prayer.
— Thomas Watson
Let us beg from God, a spiritual palate to relish a sweetness in holy things. For lack of spiritual hearts, we come to duty without delight, and go away without profit!
— Thomas Watson
God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.
— Thomas Watson
Self-examination [means] setting up a court in [your] conscience and keeping a register there that by strict scrutiny a man may know how things stand between God and his own soul.
— Thomas Watson
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.
— Thomas Watson
A good Christian is not a grave to bury God's mercies, but a temple to sing His praises.
— Thomas Watson
A soul encompassed with mercy is zealously active in God's service.
— Thomas Watson
Until the heart is pure, all our holy things (that is, our religious duties) are polluted. They are but splendid sins!
— Thomas Watson
He who has no love in his heart to God, you may set him down for an apostate.
— Thomas Watson