George Whitefield Quotes

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

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

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.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness. Those who trust in their own righteousness for conversion hide behind their own good works. This is the reason that self-righteous people are so angry with gospel preachers, because the gospel does not spare those who will not submit to the righteousness of Jesus Christ!

John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

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

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

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

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

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.

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

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

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

See that you feel the truths that you speak.