George Whitefield
George Whitefield
George Whitefield, also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglican cleric who helped spread the Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the American colonies. Born in Gloucester, England, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford University, where he met the Wesley brothers. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally. In 1740, Whitefield traveled to America, where he preached a series of revivals that came to be known as the "Great Awakening". Whitefield was...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth16 December 1714
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.
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.
The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.
Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.
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.
The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!
The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.
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.
You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.
The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature was, the fall of our first parents.
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.
Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.
The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.
Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.