"Numberless marks does man bear in his soul,……" — George Whitefield
"Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving."
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103 Quotes by George Whitefield
George Whitefield has 103 quotes on this site.
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I would rather wear out than rust out.
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Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, even persecutors, the worst of sinners: his righteousness is sufficient for…
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Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
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True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God,…
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The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who…
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A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless…
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific…
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No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they…
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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
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Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and…
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Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on…
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Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.
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More Backwardness Quotes
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It is time to end the western policy of malign neglect. It is in the interest of the whole world…
— James Buchan
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But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented…
— Ronald Reagan
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A long time ago I learned not to put the blame for backwardness in Brazil on the US. We have…
— Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
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Man represses the irrational passions of destructiveness, hate, envy, revenge; he worships power, money, the sovereign state, the nation; while…
— Erich Fromm
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Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I cannot emphasize enough how wrongheaded this is. Withholding criticism and ignoring differences are racism in its purest form. Yet…
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The link between peace and stability on the one hand, and social and economic growth on the other, is dialectic.…
— King Hussein I
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Any revolution which denies the right to criticize is bound to wallow in stagnation and backwardness.
— Pablo Antonio Cuadra
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Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by…
— George F. Kennan
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On the country has gathered the idea of a natural way of life: of peace, innocence, and simple virtue. On…
— Raymond Williams
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Recall that the United Nations commissioned Arab scholars and analysts to publish the Arab Human Development Report. What causes the…
— Larry Elder
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There are major disappointments with the outcomes of Solidarity: corruption, and major pockets of economic backwardness and even poverty. By…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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