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George Whitefield – Quotes to Encourage Your Soul – Part II

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“Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.”1

“If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed … In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

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

“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?”

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

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


1 All of these quotes are from the website below:

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