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Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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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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I say salvation is the free gift of God. It is God's free grace, I preach unto you, not of works, lest anyone should boast. Jesus Christ justifies the ungodly. Jesus Christ passed by and saw you polluted with your blood and bid you live.
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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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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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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
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Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.
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This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan's fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.
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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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To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.
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I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.
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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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Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.
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The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
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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.
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Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.
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If you know Christ and him crucified, you know enough to make you happy, supposing you know nothing else. And without this, all your other knowledge cannot keep you from being everlastingly miserable.
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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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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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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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It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
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