The Great Gain of Godliness - Quotes from Ch. 1
In reading The Great Gain of Godliness by Thomas Watson, these are my favorite quotes from chapter 1.
“The more outrageous other are in sin, the more courageous we should be for truth.” -5
“Almost all will court the Gospel Queen when she is hung with jewels. But to own the ways of God when they are decried and maligned, to love a persecuted truth, this evidences a vital principal.” -6
“Sin is never the better because it is in fashion, nor will this plea hold at the last day, that we did as the most. God will say, Seeing you sinned with the multitude, you shall go to hell with the multitude.” -7
“Though others wonder we do not sin after the rate that they do, yet remember, it is better to go to heaven with a few than to hell in the crowd.” -9
“If anyone ask what Christ died of, it may be answered, He died of love.” -10
“Reproaches for Christ are ensigns of honour, badges of adoption (I Pet. 4:14), the high honours of accusations, Chrysostom.” -11
“Be not laughed out of your religion. If a lame man laugh at you for walking upright, will you therefore limp?” -11
