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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
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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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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.
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You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.
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If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.
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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.
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You see, my brethren, my heart is full I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.
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I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.
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The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.
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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.
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God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.
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You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
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Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings
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He [Jesus Christ] 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.
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Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
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We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts
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God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
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Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.
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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.
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O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.
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Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.
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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.
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