Thomas Watson on Zeal (11 of 18, Introduction and Overview of the Puritans) Who Were the Puritans? What Did They Teach? The Relevance of Puritanism For Christians Today by Dr. Matthew McMahon (Free MP3s)

 "Those prayers God likes best come seething hot from the heart." - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"Afflictions are as needful as ordinances." - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"There is more evil in a drop of sin -- than in a sea of affliction!" - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"Till sin be bitter, Christ will not be sweet." Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"What fools are they who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath." - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"Prayer is the soul's breathing itself into the bosom of its heavenly Father." - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"The natural heart is ... the nursery of sin, the magazine where all the weapons of wickedness lie, full of antipathy against God, a lesser Hell!" - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"Morality is but nature refined--old Adam put in a better dress. The garnishing of man with moral excellencies, is but adorning a dead man with a garland of flowers!" - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"The love of sin makes sin taste sweet--this sweetness beguiles the heart, and ruins the soul. It is worse to love sin, than to commit it. The love of sin...  hardens the heart, keeps the devil in possession, and freezes the soul in impenitence." - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"View sin in the looking-glass of Christ's sufferings. The least sin cost His blood!" - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)

"Read the greatness of your sin in the greatness of the Savior's sufferings, and in the depth of His wounds!" - Thomas Watson (on the Puritan Hard Drive)