George Whitefield
Why fear ye that the Lord Jesus Christ will not accept of you? Your sins will be no hindrance, your unworthiness no hindrance; if your own corrupt hearts do not keep you back, nothing will hinder Christ from receiving of you.Collection: Jesus
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.Collection: Jesus
Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.Collection: Inspirational
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.Collection: Religious
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.Collection: Book
Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.Collection: Giving
Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.Collection: Hands
Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.Collection: Men
Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.Collection: Heart
Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferingsCollection: Perfect
Nothing is more generally known than the duties which belong to christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practised?Collection: Good Christian
Although believers by nature are far from God, and children of wrath, even as others, yet it is amazing to think how nigh they are brought to him again by the blood of Jesus Christ.Collection: Jesus
Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.Collection: Mean
Let us...once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.Collection: Lying
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.Collection: Book
The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.Collection: Christian
Lord Jesus, I am weary in Thy work, but not of it. If I have not yet finished my course, let me go and speak for Thee once more in the field, seal Thy truth, and come home to die.Collection: Jesus
Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.Collection: Writing
I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.Collection: Jesus
The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.Collection: Fall
If an earthly king was to issue out a royal proclamation, on performing or not performing the conditions therein contained, the life or death of his subjects entirely depended, how solicitous would they be to hear what those conditions were? And shall not we pay the same respect to the King of kings and Lord of lords and lend an attentive ear to his ministers, when they are declaring, in his name, how our pardon, peace, and happiness may be secured?Collection: Kings
O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.Collection: Jesus
Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.Collection: Missionary
There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.Collection: People
Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.Collection: Faith
I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.Collection: Might
I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.Collection: Tired
All I can say is I look for perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life, and I hope for no other peace, only a cross, while on this side of eternity.Collection: Struggle
Indeed, I have been listed under Jesus' banner only for a few years, but I have enjoyed more solid pleasure in one moment's communion with my God than I should or could have enjoyed in the ways of sin, though I had continued to have gone on in them for thousands of years.Collection: Jesus
I believe I never was more acceptable to my Master than when I was standing to teach those hearers in the open fields. I now preach to ten times more people than I would if I had been confined to the churches.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Christian
Our food and our rest, our trades and our labors, are to be attended to, and all the offices of humanity performed in obedience to the will of God, for the glory of Christ.Collection: Office
Oh that I was lowly in heart! Honor and dishonor, good report and evil report would then be alike, and prove a furtherance to me in my Christian cause.Collection: Christian
God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.Collection: Spirit
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.Collection: Nature
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.Collection: Thanksgiving
No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.Collection: Faith