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Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.

Christian, Jesus, Grace

Thomas Watson, R. Armstrong (1816). “The Christian Soldier: Or, Heaven Taken by Storm, Shewing the Holy Violence a Christian is to Put Forth in the Pursuit After Glory. To which is Added: The Happiness of Drawing Near to God, and The Saint's Desire to be with Christ”, p.25

Let us then ascribe the whole work of grace to the pleasure of God's Will. God did not choose us because we were worthy, but by choosing us He makes us worthy.

Thomas Watson

Grace, Election, Pleasure

Thomas Watson (2015). “All Things for Good: An Exposition of Romans 8:28”, p.91, Gideon House Books

Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak and languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.

Thomas Watson

Prayer, Arrows, Grace

Thomas Watson (2013). “A Body of Divinity”, p.238, Lulu Press, Inc

The right manner of growth is to grow less in one's own eyes.

Thomas Watson

Eye, Grace, Growth

Thomas Watson (1838). “A body of practical divinity, consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster: with a suppl. of some sermons on several texts of Scripture”, p.246