Quotes about Christ
The christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun.
— Thomas Paine
Christ went more willingly to the cross than we do to the throne of grace.
— Thomas Watson
Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
— Thomas Watson
A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.
— Thomas Watson
It was wonderful love that Christ should rather die for us than for the angels that fell. They were creatures of a more noble extract, and in all probability might have brought greater revenues of glory to God; yet that Christ should pass by those golden vessels, and make us clods of earth into stars of glory -- Oh, the hyperbole of Christ's love!
— Thomas Watson
The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
— Thomas Watson
A Christian is a military person, he fights the Lord's battles, he is Christ's ensignbearer. Now, what though he endures hard fate, and the bullets fly about? He fights for a crown!
— Thomas Watson
Many like to hear of the love of Christ, but not of loving their enemies; they like the comforts of the word, but not its reproofs.
— Thomas Watson
Christ was born of a virgin, that we might be born of God. He took our flesh, that He might give us His Spirit. He lay in the manger that we might lie in paradise. He came down from heaven, that He might bring us to heaven. And what was all this but love? If our hearts be not rocks, this love of Christ should affect us. Behold, love that surpasses knowledge!
— Thomas Watson
As, when king Uzziah would offer incense without a priest, God was angry with him, and struck him with leprosy (2 Chron 26:20). Just so, when we do not come to God in and through Christ, we offer up incense to him without a priest, and what can we expect but severe rebukes?
— Thomas Watson
It [repentance] is not so much to endear us to Christ as to endear Christ to us. Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.
— Thomas Watson
God so values his people that he will give kingdoms for their ransom (Isaiah 43:3); He put his best Jewel (Christ) in pawn for them (John 3:16).
— Thomas Watson