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# Living fish swim against the stream
- URL: https://www.theholyfight.com/living-fish-swim-against-the-stream/
- Published: 2026-11-03T21:23:57.000Z
- Updated: 2026-11-03T21:23:57.000Z
- Description: Thomas Watson, Heaven Taken by Storm
- Author: Sean Catlett
- Tags: Library, Thomas Watson

> Living fish swim against the stream. We must swim against the world, else we shall be carried down the stream, and fall into the dead sea.

**Thomas Watson**, *Heaven Taken by Storm* (1669)

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Thomas Watson (c. 1620–1686) was an English Puritan preacher. *Heaven Taken by Storm* was first published in 1669\. Spelling here is modernised; the words are his.

"Holy violence" is Watson's phrase for all-out, wholehearted effort toward God (Matthew 11:12).

More words from the saints who fought before us are in [the Library](https://www.theholyfight.com/tag/library/).