George Whitefield Quotes

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• I would rather wear out than rust out.
• 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…
• Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
• 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,…
• 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…
• 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,…
• Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.
• 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…
• How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
• 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…
• Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!
• Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.
• 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…
• Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
• The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.
• If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is…
• God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
• What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!
• For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.
• 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…

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