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George Whitefield
December 16, 1714 - September 30, 1770
Nationality: American
Category: Clergyman
Subcategory: American Clergyman

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?

   

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

   

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

   

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

   

O my brethren, my heart is enlarge towards you. I trust I feel something of that hidden, but powerful presence of Christ, whilst I am preaching to you.

   

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.

   

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

   

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

   

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

   

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

   

Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

   

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

   

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

    Topics: Christianity

As for the extraordinary operations of the Holy Ghost, such as working of miracles, or speaking with divers kinds of tongues, they are long since ceased.

   

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.

   

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil; to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil; and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

   

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

   

Among the many reasons assignable for the sad decay of true Christianity, perhaps the neglecting to assemble ourselves together, in religious societies, may not be one of the least.

    Topics: Christianity

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.

   

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

   

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