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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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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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The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.
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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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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.
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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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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, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!
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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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God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.
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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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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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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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I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.
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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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I would rather wear out than rust out.
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You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.
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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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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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