Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.
Thomas GoodwinOh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.
Thomas GoodwinMy 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 GoodwinIf 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 GoodwinGod 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 GoodwinThe Indwelling of Christ by faithis to have Jesus Christ continually in oneโs 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