Pithy gems from Thomas Watson!

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Eternity to the godly, is a day that has no sunset.
Eternity to the wicked, is a night that has no sunrise.

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Christ is never sweet, until sin is felt to be bitter.

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Christ will not throw away His pearls, for every speck of dirt!

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The world is a flattering enemy, it kills by embracing. Whom the world kisses, it betrays. Is Heaven in your eye, and Christ in your heart, and the world under your feet?

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Christ shed tears, for those who shed His blood!

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The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains!

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He who believes not in the blood of the Lamb, must feel the wrath of the Lamb.

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Sin has . . .
  the devil for its father,
  shame for its companion,
  and death for its wages!

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What fools are they, who for a drop of pleasure—drink a sea of wrath!

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Every time you draw your breath, you suck in mercy!

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We are more sure to arise out of our graves, than out of our beds.

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Read the Scripture, not only as a history—but as a love-letter sent to you from God!

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God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it! The only design He has for us is to make us holy.

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Death is the last and best physician. It cures all diseases and sins—the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was the midwife which brought death into the world—and death shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer!

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There is more evil in a drop of sin, than in a sea of affliction!

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Knowledge without repentance, will be but a torch to light men to Hell.

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What good will it do a man when he is in Hell, that others think he has gone to Heaven?

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Godliness consists in a harmony between holy principles and holy practices. 

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How can the unrepentant sinner be merry—who is heir to all God's curses, and does not know how soon he may take up his lodgings among the damned!

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The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ!

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Christ is never sincerely loved, until sin is sincerely loathed!

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He is a fool, who minds his recreation more than his salvation!

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The greatest judgment God lays upon a man in this life, is to let him sin without hindrance.

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He who hides one rebel in his house, is a traitor to the Crown.
Just so, he who indulges one sin, is a traitorous hypocrite.

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It is better to go with difficulty to Heaven, than with ease to Hell! "Strive to enter through the narrow door; for many, I tell you, will seek to enter and will not be able!" Luke 13:24

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True happiness consists not in beauty, honor, riches (the world's trinity)—but in the forgiveness of sin. "How blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered!" Psalm 32:1