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Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

George Whitefield

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George Whitefield
Age: 55 †
Born: 1714
Born: December 16
Died: 1770
Died: September 30
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O poor New England! There is a deep laid plot against your civil and religious liberties, and they will be lost. Your golden days are at an end. You have nothing but trouble before you. . . . Your liberties will be lost.
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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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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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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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God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.
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The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
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Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.
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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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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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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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Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified
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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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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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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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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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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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And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you?
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You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.
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You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.
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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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