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Ch. 8 – The Godly Should Meditate On God’s Name
From The Great Gain of Godliness, by Thomas Watson

“It is the inseparable sign of a godly man to employ his chief thoughts about God.” -77

“As the mariners needle turns to the North Pole so a saint’s thoughts are still pointing towards God.” -77

“God is the supreme good. There is nothing but God worth thinking upon.” -77-78

“To hinder him from thinking upon God is to bar him from his pleasure.” -78

“O my soul, shall I admire the drip and not the ocean? Shall I think of the workmanship, and not of him that made it? This is the fruit of original sin: it has warped the soul, and taken it off from the right object.” -79

“His ways are secret, but always just.” -79

“Let us look up to Christ that he would stand between us and God’s justice, and that he would intercede for us, that the thoughts of our hearts may be forgiven us.” -82

“Thinking seriously on heavenly things make them stay in our minds, causes delight in them, and makes them nourish us.” -84

“For those who are mounted high in the contemplation of Christ and glory, how do the things of the world disappear, and even shrink into nothing!” -86

“The reason our affections are so chilled adn cold in religion is that we do not warn them with the thoughts of God.” -86-87

“Some complain that they have no joy in their lives; and truly, no wonder, when they are such strangers to heavenly contemplation. Would you have God give you comfort, and never think of him?” -88

“The mind seasoned with good thoughts in the morning will keep the heart in a better state all the day after.” -92

“A person deeply in love cannot keep this thoughts off from the object he loves. The reason we think on God no more, is because we love him no more.” -92

“Why do men think no more of God, but because God and they are strangers? Let a man’s interest in God be cleared and he will not be able to keep his thoughts off from God.” -92