George Whitefield Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.”
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“How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.”
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“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.”
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“Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.”
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“For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.”
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“What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!”
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“Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.”
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“It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.”
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“Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.”
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“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.”
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“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?”
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“Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.”
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“Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!”
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“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.”
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“Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.”
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“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...”
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“Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.”
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“Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.”
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“Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.”
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“The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.”
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“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.”
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“Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.”
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“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
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