George Whitefield Quotes

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

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.

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

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

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

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

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

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

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

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

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

Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

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

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

But he is unworthy the name of a minister of the gospel of peace, who is unwilling, not only to have his name cast out as evil, but also to die for the truths of the Lord Jesus.

Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

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.

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

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.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

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

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

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.

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.

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.

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.