Thomas Goodwin Quotes & Sayings

Where God gives opportunity for preaching it is more than likely that he has some people to convert. Usually the Word of God takes root among some, though often in but a few. — Thomas Goodwin

Judas heard all Christ's sermons. — Thomas Goodwin

When God will have any great matters done, he sets his people's hearts to work at prayer by a kind of gracious instinct. He stirs them up and moves their hearts by the influence of his Holy Spirit. — Thomas Goodwin

Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in. — Thomas Goodwin

What a wonder is it, that two natures infinitely distant, should be more intimately united than anything in the world; and yet without any confusion! That the same person should have both a glory and a grief; an infinite joy in the Deity, and an inexpressible sorrow in the humanity! That a God upon a throne should be an infant in a cradle; the thundering Creator be a weeping babe and a suffering man, are such expressions of mighty power, as well as condescending love, that they astonish men upon earth, and angels in heaven. — Thomas Goodwin

Value God and his love more than all the world, though there were millions of them. He valued you before the world, and therefore is beforehand with you in his love. He not only loved you from everlasting, (whereas your love is but of yesterday,) but in the valuation of it, he loved you before all worlds, and preferred you to all worlds: though you loved the world first, before you loved him. — Thomas Goodwin

If I were to go to heaven, and find that Christ was not there, I would leave immediately; for heaven without Christ would be hell to me. — Thomas Goodwin

Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayer and worn with thanks. — Thomas Goodwin

Heaven would be hell to me without Christ. — Thomas Goodwin

Glory in nothing, but only in this, that you are in Christ. For God chose you in him; the being you had was in him before the world was. — Thomas Goodwin

God works with power, and can make the unwilling willing; if He undertakes the conversion of a soul, it will be converted. All the pious workings of our heart towards God are the fruit and consequence of the powerful working of His grace in us. — Thomas Goodwin

In Christ are treasures that will require digging to the end of the world. — Thomas Goodwin

I will begin first to search out this right by that magna charta, that great and faithful charter which was made to Abraham, the father of the faithful, in the name of all his seed. — Thomas Goodwin

All that God is, will supply your need. — Thomas Goodwin

The most thankful person is the most fully human. — Thomas Goodwin

It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations. — Thomas Goodwin

What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause. — Thomas Goodwin

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs. — Thomas Goodwin

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun. — Thomas Goodwin

We were not fathers also to convey the promise, as Abraham was; nor although the promise, as collectively taken, had belonged to us, as to Abraham it did. — Thomas Goodwin

Grace is more than mercy and love. It super-adds to them. It denotes, not simply love, but the love of a sovereign, transcendent Superior. One that may do what He will. That may wholly choose whether He will love or no. Now God, who is an infinite Sovereign, who might have chosen whether ever He would love us or no; for Him to love us, this is Grace. — Thomas Goodwin

And so Adam, in that his speech to Eve, uttered his faith in the promise made to her of her seed, and so in that respect Adam himself came in under her covenant. — Thomas Goodwin

In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great. — Thomas Goodwin

Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us. — Thomas Goodwin

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect?' saith the Apostle; 'it is God that justifieth,' and it is their being elect that carries it. Yea, his love is so strong that if there be any accusation, - the Apostle makes the supposition, 'Who shall lay anything to their charge?' Sin or devil? - that if at any time sin or devil come to accuse, it moves God to bless. His love is so violent, it is so set, that he takes occasion to bless so much the more. — Thomas Goodwin

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best. — Thomas Goodwin

Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved. — Thomas Goodwin

Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved. — Thomas Goodwin

We have the promise of God's being our God, and of the blessing by Christ for ourselves, as we are Abraham's seed, yet take the whole promise collectively made to him and us. — Thomas Goodwin

The children of believing parents, at least their next and immediate seed, even of us Gentiles now under the gospel, are included by God within the covenant of grace. — Thomas Goodwin

Let us search into the records of Holy Writ, if out of this their great charter, there be not a seal grant of a lesser, though like privilege, and this by virtue of Christ, in that we have the honour to be accounted Abraham's seed as truly as they. — Thomas Goodwin

It is not enough to hear a sermon, but you must eat it down, take in what it commands, and then it will purge your heart ... Take the word and digest it, squeeze the juice of it into thy heart, and it will purge thee from all contrary corruption. pg. 73- 'Mans Guiltiness Before God — Thomas Goodwin

If through all thy discouragemnets thy condition prove worse and worse, so that thou canst not pray, but are struck dumb when thou comest into his presence, as David, then fall making signs when thou canst not speak; groan, sigh, sob, "chatter, "as Hezekiah did; bemoan thyself for thine unworthiness, and desire Christ to speak thy requests for thee, and God to hear him for thee. — Thomas Goodwin

God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him. — Thomas Goodwin

The Indwelling of Christ by faith ... is to have Jesus Christ continually in one's eye, a habitual sight of Him. I call it so because a man actually does not always think of Christ; but as a man does not look up to the sun continually, yet he sees the light of it ... . So you should carry along and bear along in your eye the sight and knowledge of Christ, so that at least a presence of Him accompanies you, which faith makes. - Thomas Goodwin, Works, 2:411 — Thomas Goodwin

My brethren, when God first began to love you, He gave you all that He ever meant to give you in the lump, and eternity of time is that in which He is retailing of it out. — Thomas Goodwin

Being in Christ, and united to Him, is the fundamental constitution of a Christian. — Thomas Goodwin