George Whitefield Men Quotations

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

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

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

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.

It is easy to follow Christ when all things are safe. But your love to Jesus Christ would be seen more, if you must lose your lives, or deny your Jesus. It would be a trial of your love, when fire and faggot [a wooden stick] was before you, if you would rush into that, rather than fly from the truth as it is in Jesus. Though all things are calm now, the storm is gathering and by and by it will break; it is at present no bigger than a man's hand. But when it is full it will break and then you will see whether you are found Christians or not.

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

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.

Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

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

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

Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

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

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!

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

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

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

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.