Thomas Goodwin Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.

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

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.

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.

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.