Top 100 George Whitefield Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “I would rather wear out than rust out.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

3. “Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted.”

— George Whitefield

4. “I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me.”

— George Whitefield

5. “Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified.”

— George Whitefield

6. “We are immortal till our work is done.”

— George Whitefield

7. “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!”

— George Whitefield

8. “We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.”

— George Whitefield

9. “The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!”

— George Whitefield

10. “Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.”

— George Whitefield

11. “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.”

— George Whitefield

12. “How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

14. “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.”

— George Whitefield

15. “Lord help me to begin to begin.”

— George Whitefield

16. “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.”

— George Whitefield

17. “My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.”

— George Whitefield

18. “I am tired in the Lord’s work, but not tired of it.”

— George Whitefield

19. “God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.”

— George Whitefield

20. “True repentance will entirely change you; the bias of your souls will be changed, then you will delight in God, in Christ, in His Law, and in His people.”

— George Whitefield

21. “You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts.”

— George Whitefield

22. “Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.”

— George Whitefield

23. “Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.”

— George Whitefield

24. “The reason why congregations have been so dead is because they have dead men preaching to them. How can dead men beget living children?”

— George Whitefield

25. “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.”

— George Whitefield

26. “The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.”

— George Whitefield

27. “Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.”

— George Whitefield

28. “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.”

— George Whitefield

29. “Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.”

— George Whitefield

30. “The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.”

— George Whitefield

31. “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.”

— George Whitefield

32. “Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, “Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee.””

— George Whitefield

33. “Though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.”

— George Whitefield

34. “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.”

— George Whitefield

35. “Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

37. “Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.”

— George Whitefield

38. “True conversion means turning not only from sin but also from depending on self-made righteousness.”

— George Whitefield

39. “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.”

— George Whitefield

40. “We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.”

— George Whitefield

41. “I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books, and praying over, if possible, every line and word. This proved meat indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

43. “Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings.”

— George Whitefield

44. “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.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

46. “What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!”

— George Whitefield

47. “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.”

— George Whitefield

48. “I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.”

— George Whitefield

49. “The care of the soul is ‘a matter of the highest importance;’ beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.”

— George Whitefield

50. “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.”

— George Whitefield