164 Quotes by George Whitefield

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

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.

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.

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

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

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

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

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

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.