Quotes from George Whitefield

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

Although believers by nature, are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.

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.

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

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

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, and in His people.

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, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.

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.

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

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

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 in my Christian cause.

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.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

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

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.

God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

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

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

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

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

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.

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

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.