Thomas Goodwin Quotes

“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.”

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

“Judas heard all Christ's sermons.”

“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.”

“Heaven would be hell to me without Christ.”

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

“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.”

“Christ's riches are unsearchable, and this doctrine of the gospel is the field this treasure is hidden in.”

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

“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.”

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

“Those blessings are sweetest that are won with prayers and worn with thanks.”

“God hath but three things dear unto Him in this world, His saints, His worship, and His truth; and it is hard to say which of these is dearest unto Him.”

“We should keep up the name of 'saints,' that the reality of the true religion be not lowered by avoiding this title; for in these times it is to be feared that the name is out of use, because holiness itself is out of fashion.”

“In God's sight there are two men, Adam and Jesus Christ, and these two men have all other men hanging at their girdle strings.”

“Moreover, as God respects no persons, so He respects no conditions upon which He gives salvation to 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.”

“Every circumstance in every sin will then be as a dagger at your heart.”

“There is comfort concerning such infirmities, in that your very sins move him to pity more than to anger. This text is plain for it, for he suffers with us under our infirmities, and by infirmities are meant sins, as well as other miseries.”

“Love descends better than ascends, and so does the love of Christ, who indeed is love itself, and therefore comes down to us himself.”

“The Spirit prays in you, because Christ prays for you. He is an intercessor on earth, because Christ is an intercessor in heaven.”

“So, says Christ, injuries and unkindnesses do not so work upon me as to make me irreconcilable; it is my nature to forgive: "I am meek.”

“Though you want the comfortable sense and assurance of this, yet be not discouraged; but do you exercise faith, go out of yourselves, rely upon Christ and that mercy which is to be found in God.”

“Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God.”

“His heart stands affected towards us, under all sorts of infirmities whatsoever, either of sin or misery.”

“Whensoever we would go down into our own hearts, and take a view of our graces, let us be sure first to look wholly out of ourselves unto Christ, as our justification, and to close with him immediately.”

“That which I have here endeavoured is to set forth to all sorts of believers, whether they have assurance or not, Christ as he is the object of our faith as justifying, and as the cause of justification to us.”