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

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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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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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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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Would ministers preach for eternity! They would then act the part of true Christian orators, and not only calmly and cooly inform the understanding, but, by persuasive, pathetic address, endeavour to move the affections and warm the heart.
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The Christian world is in a deep sleep nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
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Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
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To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
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I offer you salvation this day the door of mercy is not yet shut, there does yet remain a sacrifice for sin, for all that will accept of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will embrace you in the arms of His love.
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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?
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True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.
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It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
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What could the Lord Jesus Christ have done for you more than he has? Then do not abuse his mercy, but let your time be spent in thinking and talking of the love of Jesus, who was incarnate for us, who was born of a woman, and made under the law, to redeem us from the wrath to come.
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The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
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Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.
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I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word...I would be so overpowered with a sense of God's Infinite Majestey, that I would be contrained to throw myself on the ground, and offer my soul as a blank in His hands, to write on it what He pleased.
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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.
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Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.
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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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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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It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.
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