Best 122 quotes of George Whitefield on MyQuotes

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 to purify and change their hearts.

John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here.

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.

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

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

Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.

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.

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

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 them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?

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.

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

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.

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.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

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

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

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

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

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

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

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

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

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.

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?

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

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

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.

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 all occasions to disturb me.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.

This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

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