Thomas Goodwin Quotes

Those who seek the deeper Christian life and those who want the riches that are in Christ Jesus the Lord seek no place, no wealth, no things, only Christ.

When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?

The Sermon on the Mount commands me to lay up for myself treasures, not upon earth, but in Heaven. My hopes of a future life are all founded upon the Gospel of Christ.

Material blessings fade and deteriorate, but your riches in Christ are everlasting.

The more I see of the glory of Christ, the more the painted beauties of this world will wither in my eyes.

God's love has a width, length, height, and depth, but we will never reach the end of it. Our capacity to experience God's love will be exhausted long before God's capacity to give it is strained. The picture of having Christ dwell inside us by faith presents us with compelling and comforting possibilities. What Christ does in us and through us will always be 'exceedingly abundantly above all we ask or think.'

You must keep all earthy treasures out of your heart, and let Christ be your treasure, and let Him have your heart.

I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.

The blessing of God enriches the soul for eternity while that given by the world enriches the body temporarily.

Every day we may see some new thing in Christ. His love hath neither brim nor bottom.

The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

There are other kinds of joy found in other places in the world, but there is no place where you can find Christian joy except in Christ.

If we would be sanctified, our course is clear and plain—we must begin with Christ. We must go to him as sinners, with no plea but that of utter need, and cast our souls on him by faith, for peace and reconciliation with God.... If we would grow in holiness and become more sanctified, we must continually go on as we began, and be ever making fresh applications to Christ.

Jesus didn't tell us not to store up treasures. On the contrary, he commanded us to. He simply said, "Stop storing them up in the wrong place, and start storing them up in the right place."

... if, to me, to live is Christ (Phil. 1:21), truly my words ought to be about Christ, my every thought and deed ought to depend upon His commandments, and my soul to be fashioned after His.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

The marvelous thing about spiritual wealth is that when we take our part in that, everyone else is blessed; whereas if we refused to be partakers, we hinder others from entering into the riches of God.

What is possible for you in Christ Jesus depends on your capacity to believe.

Whoever has the world's treasures has them no matter how he got them. In the world of the spirit it is otherwise.

A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it.

The true Christian delights to hear something about his Master. He likes those sermons best which are full of Christ.

We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.

Let us unlearn our wisdom of the world. Let us lie low in the Lord's power, and learn that truth alone makes rich and great.

The doctrine of Christ crucified is the strength of a Minister. I, for one, would not be without it for all the world.

Just as you did not come to Christ on your own, neither will you remain in Christ on your own.