Thomas Watson

“The serendipitous nature of hypertext links is just brilliant for a curious mind. I love it.”

“If you over-react to a crisis legislatively it generally ends in disaster.”

“I've got to be careful what I say but Glenn Mulcaire was a blagger and a phone hacker.”

“I've been a minister and I know how cautious you have to be.”

“Has Christ provided such a blessed banquet for us? He does not nurse us abroad—but feeds us with His own breast—nay, with His own blood! Let us, then, study to respond to this great love of Christ. It is true, we can never parallel His love. Yet let us show ourselves thankful. We can do nothing satisfactory—but we may do something out of gratitude. Christ gave Himself as a sin-offering for us. Let us give ourselves as a thank-offering for Him. If a man redeems another out of debt—will he not be grateful? How deeply do we stand obliged to Christ—who has redeemed us from hell!”

“Knowledge is the eye that must direct the foot of obedience.”

“If God spares us as a father does his son, let us imitate God. It is natural for children to imitate their parents. Let us imitate God in this one thing: As God spares us, and passes by many failures, so let us be sparing in our censures of others; let us look upon the weaknesses and indiscretions of our brethren with...a more tender, compassionate eye. How much God bears with us!”

“It's the job of a special advisor to be the eyes and ears of a minister and it's the job of a corporate lobbyist to represent the best interests of their organization.”

“The future regulatory arrangements for the newspaper industry need to be done in a much calmer deliberative way, in slower time when we've got beyond this media firestorm.”

“The web of influence which News Corporation spun in Britain, which effectively bent politicians, police and many others in public life to its will, amounted to a shadow state.”

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

“The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.”

“The pardoned soul is out of the gunshot of hell (Rom. 8:33).”

“The last thing we want is politicians running newspapers, but so too we don't want newspapers running the government.”

“Such as make the sacrament only a representation of Christ do aim short of the mystery, and come short of the comfort.”

“God can turn stones into bread, and a sinner can turn bread into stones; the bread of life into the stone of stumbling.”

“Until sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet.”

“We should pray that God would enrich his ordinance with his presence; that he would make the sacrament effectual to all those holy ends and purposes for which he hath appointed it; that it may be the feast of our graces, and the funeral of our corruptions; that it may not only be a sign to represent, but an instrument to convey, Christ to us, and a seal to assure us of our heavenly jointure [union].”