George Whitefield Quotes - Page 3

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

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

Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.

The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.

If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.

We are immortal till our work is done.

He [Jesus Christ] loves to see poor sinners coming to Him, He is pleased to see them lie at His feet pleading His promises; and if you thus come to Christ, He will not send you away without His Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.

If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.

I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

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

Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.

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

Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for them; his Spirit is able to purify and change their hearts.

The reason why congregations have been so dead is, because they had dead men preaching to them. O that the Lord may quicken and revive them! How can dead men beget living children?

People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity; they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.

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

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

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

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

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

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

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.