“You must remember that you were made so that the world might be graced with a brilliance that only YOU can display.”
―
Stalina Goodwin,
Dear Beautiful: 31 Days of Affirmations for Women
“I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,” ― Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
“But, isn’t it like Star Trek? You know, stand in the circles and ‘Beam me up, Scotty’?” ― Grace Goodwin, Mated to the Warriors
“need you like this, soft and gentle. I need to feel your love around me soothing the fires that rage in my soul. To heal me, even when I’m not truly hurt. I need to hold you and be still, just like this. Grigg needs it too, even more than I do. His rage is like a volcano inside him. We need you.” ― Grace Goodwin, Mastered by Her Mates
“When it’s over, come looking for the unconscious idiot floating in a space suit.” ― Grace Goodwin, The Commanders' Mate
“Thomas Goodwin Jr. wrote of his godly father: In all the violence of [his fever], he discoursed with that strength of faith and assurance of Christ’s love, with that holy admiration of free grace, with that joy in believing, and such thanksgivings and praises, as he extremely moved and affected all that heard him…. He rejoiced in the thoughts that he was dying, and going to have a full and uninterrupted communion with God. ‘I am going,’ said he, ‘to the three Persons, with whom I have had communion: they have taken me; I did not take them…. I could not have imagined I should ever have had such a measure of faith in this hour…. Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God….’ With this assurance of faith, and fullness of joy, his soul left this world.89 ” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“Your heart matters and your pain matters, but for the love of all things beautiful in the world, you must keep your cool. Whether things ended amicably or in a messy manner, your overwhelming desire to express your emotions will reach a peak and you will want your voice heard. The best advice you will ever receive when it comes to this part is this: You are a queen and you must not disgrace yourself. It will seem easier said than done, but you must keep in mind that you are a woman of greatness and women of greatness carry themselves in grace and dignity.” ― Stalina Goodwin, Crown Adjusted: Daily Affirmations For Queens Going Through a Break Up
“You are to consider that God does not hear you for your prayers’ sake (though not without them), but for His name’s sake and His Son’s sake, and because you are His child. The mother does not neglect to hear and relieve her child when the child cries, but she is tender, not because the child cries more loudly, but because the child cries, and the weaker the child is, the more pity she shows. Again, though the performance in itself might be weak, yet considered as a prayer, it might be strong, because a weak prayer may set the strong God to work. The faith we produce may be weak, yet because its object is Christ, therefore it justifies. So it is in prayer; it prevails, not because of the performance itself, but because of the name in which it is made, even Christ’s name. Therefore, as a weak faith justifies, so a weak prayer prevails as well as a stronger, and both for the same reason, for faith attributes all to God, and so does prayer. As faith is merely a receiving grace, so prayer is a begging grace.” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“And it’s not all bad. You ended up here, the sweet cream filling between two hard Prillon Oreos.” Rachel nearly choked on her wine.” ― Grace Goodwin, Surrender to the Cyborgs
“God, men are the same wherever they are,” she grumbled. “I left Earth to get away from an asshole who wanted me as a possession and now I’ve got three of them.” “We” ― Grace Goodwin, Claimed by Her Mates
“Don't cry Mommy." My heart skipped a beat as I heard the voice of my son for the first time.” ― Grace Goodwin, Assigned a Mate
“Unlike guys I’d been with in the past who hadn’t found my clit with a headlamp and a compass, he found it with laser precision,” ― Grace Goodwin, Fighting for Their Mate
“The fast-paced insanity of a live show had people amped like they had an IV of coffee direct into their veins.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“So, Wulf,” Woocy began. “Woocy,” I replied. She laughed, head thrown back. “My name is Lucy.” She tipped her head toward Tanner. “He’s working on sounding some letters. L’s are hard for him.” I looked down at Tanner, who stared up at me with awe. “I think I like Woocy better,” I told him, as if sharing a secret.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“Longing. That’s what this was. Desperate, vulnerable longing. Longing to be part of her family, to be loved the way she loved these small human children, to finally matter to someone beyond what I could do on a battleship or to enemies in the war. I ached to be accepted as I was now, contaminated and damaged, barely in control of my beast. I longed to be hers. Just her. I needed a home, and she was that now, for me and for my beast.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“Olivia was softness and acceptance. Every part of her molded to me like a warm blanket. There was no struggle, no war, only comfort and pleasure.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“our only hope is that the one who shares in all our pain shares in it as the pure and holy one. Our sinless high priest is not one who needs rescue but who provides it. This is why we can go to him to “receive mercy and find grace” (4:16). He himself is not trapped in the hole of sin with us; he alone can pull us out. His sinlessness is our salvation. But here we are beginning to move over into the work of Christ. The burden of Hebrews 4:15, and of Thomas Goodwin’s book on it, is the heart of Christ. Yes, verse 16 speaks of “the throne of grace.” But verse 15 is opening up to us the heart of grace. Not only can he alone pull us out of the hole of sin; he alone desires to climb in and bear our burdens. Jesus is able to sympathize. He “co-suffers” with us. As Goodwin’s contemporary John Owen put it, Christ “is inclined from his own heart and affections to give . . . us help and relief . . . and he is inwardly moved during our sufferings and trials with a sense and fellow-feeling of them.”5 If you are in Christ, you have a Friend who, in your sorrow, will never lob down a pep talk from heaven. He cannot bear to hold himself at a distance. Nothing can hold him back. His heart is too bound up with yours. 1” ― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“Thomas Goodwin Jr. wrote of his godly father: In all the violence of [his fever], he discoursed with that strength of faith and assurance of Christ’s love, with that holy admiration of free grace, with that joy in believing, and such thanksgivings and praises, as he extremely moved and affected all that heard him…. He rejoiced in the thoughts that he was dying, and going to have a full and uninterrupted communion with God. ‘I am going,’ said he, ‘to the three Persons, with whom I have had communion: they have taken me; I did not take them…. I could not have imagined I should ever have had such a measure of faith in this hour…. Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God….’ With this assurance of faith, and fullness of joy,” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“Goodwin completes his sentence like this: Christ’s “own joy, comfort, happiness, and glory are increased and enlarged by his showing grace and mercy, in pardoning, relieving, and comforting his members here on earth.”1 A compassionate doctor has traveled deep into the jungle to provide medical care to a primitive tribe afflicted with a contagious disease. He has had his medical equipment flown in. He has correctly diagnosed the problem, and the antibiotics are prepared and available. He is independently wealthy and has no need of any kind of financial compensation. But as he seeks to provide care, the afflicted refuse. They want to take care of themselves. They want to heal on their own terms. Finally, a few brave young men step forward to receive the care being freely provided. What does the doctor feel? Joy. His joy increases to the degree that the sick come to him for help and healing. It’s the whole reason he came. How much more if the diseased are not strangers but his own family? So with us, and so with Christ. He does not get flustered and frustrated when we come to him for fresh forgiveness, for renewed pardon, with distress and need and emptiness. That’s the whole point. It’s what he came to heal. He went down into the horror of death and plunged out through the other side in order to provide a limitless supply of mercy and grace to his people.” ― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“I trust you will have the grace to go and hang yourself rather than attempt to belittle a nation by running for the presidency,” ― Doris Kearns Goodwin, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism
“But, isn’t it like Star Trek? You know, stand in the circles and ‘Beam me up, Scotty’?” ― Grace Goodwin, Mated to the Warriors
“need you like this, soft and gentle. I need to feel your love around me soothing the fires that rage in my soul. To heal me, even when I’m not truly hurt. I need to hold you and be still, just like this. Grigg needs it too, even more than I do. His rage is like a volcano inside him. We need you.” ― Grace Goodwin, Mastered by Her Mates
“When it’s over, come looking for the unconscious idiot floating in a space suit.” ― Grace Goodwin, The Commanders' Mate
“Thomas Goodwin Jr. wrote of his godly father: In all the violence of [his fever], he discoursed with that strength of faith and assurance of Christ’s love, with that holy admiration of free grace, with that joy in believing, and such thanksgivings and praises, as he extremely moved and affected all that heard him…. He rejoiced in the thoughts that he was dying, and going to have a full and uninterrupted communion with God. ‘I am going,’ said he, ‘to the three Persons, with whom I have had communion: they have taken me; I did not take them…. I could not have imagined I should ever have had such a measure of faith in this hour…. Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God….’ With this assurance of faith, and fullness of joy, his soul left this world.89 ” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“Your heart matters and your pain matters, but for the love of all things beautiful in the world, you must keep your cool. Whether things ended amicably or in a messy manner, your overwhelming desire to express your emotions will reach a peak and you will want your voice heard. The best advice you will ever receive when it comes to this part is this: You are a queen and you must not disgrace yourself. It will seem easier said than done, but you must keep in mind that you are a woman of greatness and women of greatness carry themselves in grace and dignity.” ― Stalina Goodwin, Crown Adjusted: Daily Affirmations For Queens Going Through a Break Up
“You are to consider that God does not hear you for your prayers’ sake (though not without them), but for His name’s sake and His Son’s sake, and because you are His child. The mother does not neglect to hear and relieve her child when the child cries, but she is tender, not because the child cries more loudly, but because the child cries, and the weaker the child is, the more pity she shows. Again, though the performance in itself might be weak, yet considered as a prayer, it might be strong, because a weak prayer may set the strong God to work. The faith we produce may be weak, yet because its object is Christ, therefore it justifies. So it is in prayer; it prevails, not because of the performance itself, but because of the name in which it is made, even Christ’s name. Therefore, as a weak faith justifies, so a weak prayer prevails as well as a stronger, and both for the same reason, for faith attributes all to God, and so does prayer. As faith is merely a receiving grace, so prayer is a begging grace.” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“And it’s not all bad. You ended up here, the sweet cream filling between two hard Prillon Oreos.” Rachel nearly choked on her wine.” ― Grace Goodwin, Surrender to the Cyborgs
“God, men are the same wherever they are,” she grumbled. “I left Earth to get away from an asshole who wanted me as a possession and now I’ve got three of them.” “We” ― Grace Goodwin, Claimed by Her Mates
“Don't cry Mommy." My heart skipped a beat as I heard the voice of my son for the first time.” ― Grace Goodwin, Assigned a Mate
“Unlike guys I’d been with in the past who hadn’t found my clit with a headlamp and a compass, he found it with laser precision,” ― Grace Goodwin, Fighting for Their Mate
“The fast-paced insanity of a live show had people amped like they had an IV of coffee direct into their veins.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“So, Wulf,” Woocy began. “Woocy,” I replied. She laughed, head thrown back. “My name is Lucy.” She tipped her head toward Tanner. “He’s working on sounding some letters. L’s are hard for him.” I looked down at Tanner, who stared up at me with awe. “I think I like Woocy better,” I told him, as if sharing a secret.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“Longing. That’s what this was. Desperate, vulnerable longing. Longing to be part of her family, to be loved the way she loved these small human children, to finally matter to someone beyond what I could do on a battleship or to enemies in the war. I ached to be accepted as I was now, contaminated and damaged, barely in control of my beast. I longed to be hers. Just her. I needed a home, and she was that now, for me and for my beast.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“Olivia was softness and acceptance. Every part of her molded to me like a warm blanket. There was no struggle, no war, only comfort and pleasure.” ― Grace Goodwin, Bachelor Beast
“our only hope is that the one who shares in all our pain shares in it as the pure and holy one. Our sinless high priest is not one who needs rescue but who provides it. This is why we can go to him to “receive mercy and find grace” (4:16). He himself is not trapped in the hole of sin with us; he alone can pull us out. His sinlessness is our salvation. But here we are beginning to move over into the work of Christ. The burden of Hebrews 4:15, and of Thomas Goodwin’s book on it, is the heart of Christ. Yes, verse 16 speaks of “the throne of grace.” But verse 15 is opening up to us the heart of grace. Not only can he alone pull us out of the hole of sin; he alone desires to climb in and bear our burdens. Jesus is able to sympathize. He “co-suffers” with us. As Goodwin’s contemporary John Owen put it, Christ “is inclined from his own heart and affections to give . . . us help and relief . . . and he is inwardly moved during our sufferings and trials with a sense and fellow-feeling of them.”5 If you are in Christ, you have a Friend who, in your sorrow, will never lob down a pep talk from heaven. He cannot bear to hold himself at a distance. Nothing can hold him back. His heart is too bound up with yours. 1” ― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
“Thomas Goodwin Jr. wrote of his godly father: In all the violence of [his fever], he discoursed with that strength of faith and assurance of Christ’s love, with that holy admiration of free grace, with that joy in believing, and such thanksgivings and praises, as he extremely moved and affected all that heard him…. He rejoiced in the thoughts that he was dying, and going to have a full and uninterrupted communion with God. ‘I am going,’ said he, ‘to the three Persons, with whom I have had communion: they have taken me; I did not take them…. I could not have imagined I should ever have had such a measure of faith in this hour…. Christ cannot love me better than he doth; I think I cannot love Christ better than I do; I am swallowed up in God….’ With this assurance of faith, and fullness of joy,” ― Thomas Goodwin, A Habitual Sight of Him: The Christ-Centered Piety of Thomas Goodwin
“Goodwin completes his sentence like this: Christ’s “own joy, comfort, happiness, and glory are increased and enlarged by his showing grace and mercy, in pardoning, relieving, and comforting his members here on earth.”1 A compassionate doctor has traveled deep into the jungle to provide medical care to a primitive tribe afflicted with a contagious disease. He has had his medical equipment flown in. He has correctly diagnosed the problem, and the antibiotics are prepared and available. He is independently wealthy and has no need of any kind of financial compensation. But as he seeks to provide care, the afflicted refuse. They want to take care of themselves. They want to heal on their own terms. Finally, a few brave young men step forward to receive the care being freely provided. What does the doctor feel? Joy. His joy increases to the degree that the sick come to him for help and healing. It’s the whole reason he came. How much more if the diseased are not strangers but his own family? So with us, and so with Christ. He does not get flustered and frustrated when we come to him for fresh forgiveness, for renewed pardon, with distress and need and emptiness. That’s the whole point. It’s what he came to heal. He went down into the horror of death and plunged out through the other side in order to provide a limitless supply of mercy and grace to his people.” ― Dane C. Ortlund, Gentle and Lowly: The Heart of Christ for Sinners and Sufferers
