George Whitefield
True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.Collection: Mean
My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.Collection: Christian
Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'Collection: Men
A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.Collection: Faith
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.Collection: Book
It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.Collection: Doctrine
The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.Collection: House
As God can send a nation or people no greater blessing than to give them faithful, sincere and upright ministers, so the greatest curse that God can possibly send upon a people in this world is to give them over to blind, unregenerate, carnal, lukewarm and unskilled guides.Collection: Blessing
Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."Collection: Degrees
Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promotedCollection: Jesus
Come away, my dear brethren, fly, fly, fly for your lives to Jesus Christ; fly to a bleeding God, fly to a throne of grace; and beg of God to break your heart; beg of God to convince you of your actual sins; beg of God to convince you of your original sin; beg of God to convince you of your self-righteousness; beg of God to give you faith, and to enable you to close with Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.Collection: Eye
The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!Collection: Christian
Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.Collection: Christmas
As Christ was born of the Virgin's womb, so must He be spiritually formed in our hearts. As He died for sin, so must we die to sin. And as He rose again from the dead, so must we also rise to a divine life.Collection: Spiritual
When you hear of a notorious sinner, instead of thinking you do well to be angry, beg of Jesus Christ to convert, and make him a monument of his free grace.Collection: Jesus
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!Collection: Humility
It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.Collection: Christian
If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action, deserves eternal damnation, how many hells, my friends, do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!Collection: Evil
Lord help me to begin to begin.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Soul
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.Collection: Jesus
There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.Collection: Heart
If we are not inwardly wrought upon, and changed by the powerful operations of the Holy Spirit, and our moral actions proceed from a principle of a new nature, however we may call ourselves Christians, we shall be found naked at the great day.Collection: Christian
We are immortal till our work is done.Collection: Done
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.Collection: Miserable
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Jesus
It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.Collection: Men
Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!Collection: Moon
The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.Collection: Jesus
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.Collection: Christian
See that you feel the truths that you speak.Collection: Speak
The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children's good.Collection: Jesus
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?Collection: Children
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.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Jesus
Know, by sad experience, what it is to be lulled to sleep with a false peace. Long was I lulled asleep; long did I think myself a Christian, when I knew nothing of the Lord Jesus Christ.Collection: Christian
Whoever reads the gospel with a single eye, and sincere intentions, will find, that our blessed Lord took all opportunities of reminding his disciples that His Kingdom was not of this world; that His doctrine was a doctrine of the Cross; and that their professing themselves to be His followers, would call them to a constant state of voluntary suffering and self-denial.Collection: Spiritual
Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorifiedCollection: Names
We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.Collection: Christian
God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.Collection: Spiritual
The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.Collection: Spiritual
You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.Collection: Greatness
For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.Collection: Christian
Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.Collection: Despair
Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.Collection: Heart
Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.Collection: Prayer
Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.Collection: Men