George Whitefield Quotes

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

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

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

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

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.

When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.

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

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

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.

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

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

I would rather wear out than rust out.

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

We are immortal till our work is done.

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

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.

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

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

You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

Lord help me to begin to begin.

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

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

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

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

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?