When we see the provision for the complete cleansing from inbred sin, and then refuse to accept it, we reject that part of the gospel, and virtually adopt inbred sin as our own.

                - G.D. Watson, White Robes (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Press, 1883), 16.

G D (George Douglas) Watson was converted to Christ, 8/11/1863, while a Confederate soldier.  He was born in 1845 and died in 1923.

Inbred sin is a unit of moral evil. If you have any sin whatever in your heart, of any kind or degree you have the seed of all sins in you. (Italics are Watson’s)

                - G.D. Watson, White Robes (Cincinnati: God’s Revivalist Press, 1883), 13.

G D (George Douglas) Watson was converted to Christ, 8/11/1863, while a Confederate soldier.  He was born in 1845 and died in 1923.

How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints.

- Beyond Personality (NY: MacMillian Company, 1945), 67.

(29 November 1898, Belfast, Ireland – 22 November 1963, Oxford, England)

Married Joy Gresham,1956

Christ says “Give me All…I want You. I have not come to torment your natural self, but to kill it…”

- Beyond Personality (NY: MacMillian Company, 1945), 40.

(29 November 1898, Belfast, Ireland – 22 November 1963, Oxford, England)

Married Joy Gresham,1956

Never do anything to excel other people but in order to please God…

 - A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (unknown printer, 1728; reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 1971), 113.

(1686, Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England – 9 April 1761, Kings Cliffe)

Prayer is the nearest approach to God and the highest enjoyment of him that we are capable of in this life.           

 - A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life (unknown printer, 1728; reprint, Grand Rapids, MI: Sovereign Grace Publishers, 1971), 79.

(1686, Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire, England – 9 April 1761, Kings Cliffe)

…mending nets is also a part of fishing for “men” to which Christ was calling them.  There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets. 

- Matthew – Titles Notes and Questions (Salem, OH: Allegheny Publications, 2006), 33.

(Born 11 February 1943, Gallipolis, Ohio)

Married Martha Scarbrough, 30 June 1961, Maryville, Tennessee

Converted to Christ, 26 April 1956, Bremen, Ohio

The worst enemy of Christianity is religion!

 - Matthew – Titles Notes and Questions (Salem, OH: Allegheny Publications, 2006), 84.

(Born 11 February 1943, Gallipolis, Ohio)

Married Martha Scarbrough, 30 June 1961, Maryville, Tennessee

Converted to Christ, 26 April 1956, Bremen, Ohio

There is more happiness in bringing souls back to God than in presidential nominations.*

- The Bible and Its Enemies (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Ass’n, 1921), 14.

 * Remember, he enjoyed this three times!

(19 March 1860, Salem, Illinois – 26 July 1925, Dayton, Tennessee)

Married Mary Baird, 1884

Some who call themselves agnostics are really atheists; it is easier to plead ignorance than to defend atheism.

- The Bible and Its Enemies (Chicago: The Bible Institute Colportage Ass’n, 1921), 12.

(19 March 1860, Salem, Illinois – 26 July 1925, Dayton, Tennessee)

Married Mary Baird, 1884