Whitefield

July 25, 2014

…you should be looking out for fresh discovering of the Lord Jesus Christ every moment; you must not build upon your past experiences, you must not build upon a work within you, but always come out of yourselves to the righteousness of Jesus Christ without you; you must be always coming as poor sinners to draw water out of the wells of salvation; you must be forgetting the things that are behind, and be continually pressing forward to the things that are before. My dear friends, you must keep up a tender, close walk with the Lord Jesus Christ.

– George Whitefield –

June 24, 2014

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have had dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?

– George Whitefield –

June 4, 2013

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.

– George Whitefield –

May 16, 2013

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

– George Whitefield –

May 7, 2013

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

– George Whitefield –

December 6, 2012

“Yet lackest thou one thing; Go sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; he was grieved at that saying, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions!” Poor youth! He had a good mind to be a Christian, and to inherit eternal life, but thought it too dear, if it could be purchased at no less an expense than of his estate! And thus many, both young and old, now-a-days, come running to worship our blessed Lord in public, and kneel before him in private, and inquire at his gospel, what they must do to inherit eternal life: but when they find they must renounce the self-enjoyment of riches, and forsake all in affection to follow him, they cry, “The Lord pardon us in this thing! We pray thee, have us excused” … He will not!”

– George Whitefield –

December 4, 2012

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

– George Whitefield –

August 12, 2012

The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?

– George Whitefield –

July 7, 2012

For this life, being a continual warfare, we must never expect to have rest from our spiritual adversary the devil, or to say, our combat with him is finished, till, with our blessed master, we bow down our heads, and give up the ghost.

– George Whitefield –