"What! Get to heaven on your own strength?……" — George Whitefield
"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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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 Climb Quotes
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If there was the opportunity to climb a mountain, or to go ballooning, or some adventurous activity, I would always…
— Roger Bannister
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I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it.
— Mary J. Blige
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Like dogs in a wheel, birds in a cage, or squirrels in a chain, ambitious men still climb and climb,…
— Robert Burton
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The allegedly 'classy' magazines often seem to be in an endless, undeclared competition to see who can climb furthest up…
— Julie Burchill
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We climb to heaven most often on the ruins of our cherished plans, finding our failures were successes.
— Amos Bronson Alcott
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When you reach the top, that's when the climb begins.
— Michael Caine
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You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Forgiveness takes the burden of hate, guilt, and bitterness off your back and, with a lighter load, you can climb…
— Zig Ziglar
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When we face seemingly insurmountable obstacles in the fulfillment of righteous responsibilities, we should remember that when we are involved…
— Dallin H. Oaks
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Happiness is not at the top of the mountain, but in how to climb.
— Confucius
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Surfing and climbing are both useless sports. You get to be conquistadors of the useless. You climb to the summit…
— Yvon Chouinard
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