George Whitefield famous quotes

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
-- George Whitefield

#Inspirational #Journey #Strive

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Sweet #Blessing

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Spiritual #Jesus

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
-- George Whitefield

#Christmas #Jesus #Men

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Spiritual #Charity

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Moon #Heaven

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
-- George Whitefield

#Inspirational Life #Care #Lord

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Spiritual #Giving

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.
-- George Whitefield

#Men #May

If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.
-- George Whitefield

#Forever #Soul #Losing

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
-- George Whitefield

#Grace #Addresses #Rich

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Fighting #Giving

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!
-- George Whitefield

#Men #Thinking #Moon

If we once get above our Bibles and cease making the written Word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.
-- George Whitefield

#Lying #Practice #Danger

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.
-- George Whitefield

#Humble #Thinking #Littles

Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Heart #Blessing

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose He means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Children #Mean

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.
-- George Whitefield

#People #Earth #Faces

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.
-- George Whitefield

#Jesus #Children #Believe

True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.
-- George Whitefield

#Law #People #Soul

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.
-- George Whitefield

#Powerful #Heart #Christ

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
-- George Whitefield

#Angel #Men #Half

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ...
-- George Whitefield

#Office #Humanity #Christ

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.
-- George Whitefield

#Giving #Word Of God

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
-- George Whitefield

#Softball #Comfort #Harvest

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.
-- George Whitefield

#Men #Dead Man #Lifeless

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
-- George Whitefield

#Fall #Character #Men

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
-- George Whitefield

#Kings #Men #Flesh

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.
-- George Whitefield

#Missionary #Christ #Thousand

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.
-- George Whitefield

#Blessing #People #Giving

A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Jesus #Heart

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.
-- George Whitefield

#May #Spirit #Martyr

As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Heart #Rose

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Soul #And Love

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
-- George Whitefield

#Believe #Son #Faithful

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
-- George Whitefield

#Prayer #Silent #Week

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
-- George Whitefield

#Perfect #Suffering #Captains

No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Blessing #Past

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.
-- George Whitefield

#God #Men #Made

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.
-- George Whitefield

#Mean #Self #Sin

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.
-- George Whitefield

#Book #Reading #Writing

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Christ #Hours

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted
-- George Whitefield

#Jesus #Blessed #Mean

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.
-- George Whitefield

#Doctrine #Holiness #Christianity

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'
-- George Whitefield

#Men #Heaven #Grace

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.
-- George Whitefield

#Christian #Blessing #Temptation

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts
-- George Whitefield

#Heart #Christ

What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.
-- George Whitefield

#Jesus #Thinking #Wrath

We are immortal till our work is done.
-- George Whitefield

#Done #Immortal

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.
-- George Whitefield

#Jesus #Thinking #Grace

I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.
-- George Whitefield

#Believe #People #Religion

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?
-- George Whitefield

#Children #Men #Reason

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!
-- George Whitefield

#Humility #Eye #Men

If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!
-- George Whitefield

#Evil #Damnation #Action

Lord help me to begin to begin.
-- George Whitefield

#Spiritual #Helping #Lord