Explore Quotes by George Whitefield

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

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

All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

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

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

Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.

The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

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.

Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.

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

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.

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.