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I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

George Whitefield

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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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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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People want to recommend themselves to God by their sincerity they think, 'If we do all we can, if we are but sincere, Jesus Christ will have mercy on us.' But pray what is there in our sincerity to recommend us to God? ... therefore, if you depend on your sincerity for your salvation, your sincerity will damn you.
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God has condescended to become an author, and yet people will not read his writings. There are very few that ever gave this Book of God, the grand charter of salvation, one fair reading through.
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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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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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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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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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The Christian world is in a deep sleep nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
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You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.
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I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me
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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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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.
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It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.
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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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Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.
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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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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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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
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