Top 100 George Whitefield Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.”

— George Whitefield

52. “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...”

— George Whitefield

53. “The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.”

— George Whitefield

54. “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.”

— George Whitefield

55. “Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.”

— George Whitefield

56. “See that you feel the truths that you speak.”

— George Whitefield

57. “Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.”

— George Whitefield

58. “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?”

— George Whitefield

59. “Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.”

— George Whitefield

60. “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.”

— George Whitefield

61. “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.”

— George Whitefield

62. “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.”

— George Whitefield

63. “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.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

65. “The Lord Jesus sits in heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for his children’s good.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

68. “Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.”

— George Whitefield

69. “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.”

— George Whitefield

70. “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.”

— George Whitefield

71. “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.”

— George Whitefield

72. “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.”

— George Whitefield

73. “You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.”

— George Whitefield

74. “For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.”

— George Whitefield

75. “Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ.”

— George Whitefield

76. “God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.”

— George Whitefield

77. “It is very remarkable, that in the book of life, we find some almost of all kinds of occupations, who notwithstanding served God in their respective generations, and shone as so many lights in the world.”

— George Whitefield

78. “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.”

— George Whitefield

79. “O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham, and believe whatever is revealed from God, though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son, and therefore believed, notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.”

— George Whitefield

80. “Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man’s judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.”

— George Whitefield

81. “It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.”

— George Whitefield

82. “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.”

— George Whitefield

83. “If your souls were not immortal, and you in danger of losing them, I would not thus speak unto you; but the love of your souls constrains me to speak: methinks this would constrain me to speak unto you forever.”

— George Whitefield

84. “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.”

— George Whitefield

85. “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.”

— George Whitefield

86. “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.”

— George Whitefield

87. “Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.”

— George Whitefield

88. “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.”

— George Whitefield

89. “For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.”

— George Whitefield

90. “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.”

— George Whitefield

91. “You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.”

— George Whitefield

92. “The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield

94. “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.”

— George Whitefield

95. “There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.”

— George Whitefield

96. “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.”

— George Whitefield

97. “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.”

— George Whitefield

98. “Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.”

— George Whitefield

99. “This discourse, and the present frame of my mind, lead me rather to speak to those, who by feeling Satan’s fiery darts, know assuredly that there is a devil.”

— George Whitefield

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

— George Whitefield