The Great Gain of Godliness - Quotes from Ch. 3
In reading The Great Gain of Godliness by Thomas Watson, these are my favorite quotes from chapter 3 titled ‘Reasons To Fear God’.
“He who is under the eye of his earthly prince will be careful of doing anything that would offend him.” -17
“As not to praise God is to wrong him, so not to fear God is to slight him.” -17
“We are apt to fear men who have power in their hand to hurt us, but what is their power to God’s? They threaten prison, God threatens hell. They threaten our life, God threatens our soul, and shall we not tremble before him?” -18
“We must not fear God with such a fear as the wicked do. They fear him as a Turkish slave does his master; they fear him in such a way as to hate him, and wish there were no God. We must not serve God with this hellish fear, be we must serve him with an ingenuous fear sweetened with love.” -18
