Quotes by Thomas Goodwin

About Thomas Goodwin:

Thomas Goodwin was an English Puritan theologian and preacher, and an important leader of religious Independents. He served as chaplain to Oliver Cromwell, and was imposed by Parliament as President of Magdalen College, Oxford, in 1650. Christopher Hill places Goodwin in the ‘main stream of Puritan thought’.
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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.

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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.

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

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

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The most thankful person is the most fully human.

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

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All that God is, will supply your need.

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

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

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Judas heard all Christ's sermons.

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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.

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Goodwin
  • DescriptionEnglish minister
  • BornOctober 5, 1600
  • DiedFebruary 23, 1680
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheologian