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I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

George Whitefield

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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.
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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 is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
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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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The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.
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Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.
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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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Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.
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You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.
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Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.
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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!
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