25 George Whitefield Quotes
“Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.”
George Whitefield
“There is none that can equal Christ in power; for the Lord Jesus Christ hath all power.”
George Whitefield
“If we once get above our Bibles, and cease making the written word of God our sole rule both as to faith and practice, we shall soon lie open to all manner of delusion, and be in great danger of making shipwreck of faith and a good conscience.”
George Whitefield
“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.”
George Whitefield
“Nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you: he loves to see poor sinners coming to him, he is pleased to see them lie at his feet pleading his promises: and if you thus come to Christ, he will not send you away without his Spirit; no, but will receive and bless you.”
George Whitefield
“What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!”
George Whitefield
“We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.”
George Whitefield
“We generally look for Christ only in the New Testament; but Christianity, in one sense, is very near as old as the creation. It is wonderful to observe how gradually God revealed his Son to mankind.”
George Whitefield
“Jesus is our peace as well as our peace-maker. When we are justified by faith in Christ, then, but not till then, we have peace with God.”
George Whitefield
“A person that walks, though he move slowly, yet he goes forward, and does not continue in one place. And so it is with those that walk with God. They go on, as the Psalmist says, ‘from strength to strength’; or, in the language of the apostle Paul, ‘they pass from glory to glory, even by the Spirit of the Lord’.”
George Whitefield
“Prayer is the very breath of the new creature, the fan of the divine life, whereby the spark of holy fire, kindled in the soul by God, is not only kept in, but raised into a flame.”
George Whitefield
“My heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent.”
George Whitefield
“The Lord Jesus Christ is our righteousness; and if we are accepted with God, it must be only in and through the personal righteousness, the active and passive obedience, of Jesus Christ his beloved Son.”
George Whitefield
“The enemies, the greatest enemies a young convert meets with, my dear brethren, are those of his own house.”
George Whitefield
“We cannot recover ourselves from the state wherein we have fallen, therefore must be renewed by the Holy Ghost. We are not true Christians, till we are sanctified by the Spirit of God.”
George Whitefield
“It is evident, that family prayer is a great and necessary duty; And it is much to be feared, if they live without family prayer, they live without God in the world.”
George Whitefield
“The faith which we preach is not a dead, but a lively active faith wrought in the soul, working a thorough change, by the power of the Holy Ghost.”
George Whitefield
“I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.”
George Whitefield
“Think, O think, how God actually suffered his Son to be slain, that we might live for evermore.”
George Whitefield
“Assure yourselves you can never serve a better master; for his service is perfect freedom, his yoke, when worn a little while, is exceeding easy, his burden light, and in keeping his commandments there is great reward; love, peace, joy in the Holy Ghost here, and a crown of glory that fadeth not away, hereafter.”
George Whitefield
“If Christians kindled by the grace of God, unite, they will quicken and enliven each other; but if they separate and keep asunder, no marvel if they soon grow cool or tepid.”
George Whitefield
“We should never have known the things of God at all by our common sense: no; it is the revelation of God which is to be our judge; it is that we appeal to, and not to our weak and shallow conceptions of things.”
George Whitefield
“When you have tasted how good the Lord is, you will show forth his praise; out of the abundance of your heart your mouth will speak.”
George Whitefield
“Let us be humbled before God and man, and be excited by our past ignorance of Satan’s devices, to adhere more closely to the written word, and to pray more earnestly for God’s holy Spirit to give us direction by it.”
George Whitefield
“And to whomsoever God gives such a faith, (for it is the free gift of God) he may lift up his head with boldness, he need not fear; he is a spiritual son of our spiritual David; he is passed from death to life, he shall never come into condemnation.”
George Whitefield
