Thomas Goodwin Quotes
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.
Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
What is the cause of all God's purposes towards us? Himself. There is no other cause.
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.
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.
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.
In public worship all should join. The little strings go to make up a concert, as well as the great.
Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to us.
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.
Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.
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.
It was both Abraham's and the Jews' privilege also that they should have this promise to all generations.
Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.
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.
Take the fact that you were created to love. Your heart can find real joy only through love - through loving and being loved.
God is infinitely beautiful in himself, and his beauty ought to attract you like a magnet to him.
Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.
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.
The person who knows Christ best is the person who will pray best.
