George Whitefield Quotes

I can understand why Christians call us heretics. But most important, who will God call a heretic? From God's point of view, my revelation is deeply orthodox.

In the Church of Jesus Christ there can and should be no non-theologians.

Man is raw and wild, that is one of the reasons why he needs the Christian teaching.

A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

There may be men who think they are attacking Christianity when they investigate the historical origin or the morality of some dogma; I do not think so. Honest investigation can result only in growth.

Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book we are indebted for all the progress made in true civilization and to this we must look as our guide in the future.

I didn't come to Christianity for money, I came to Christianity because this is the way we can live a better life.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth

Wherever you encounter truth, look upon it as Christianity.

Every good and true Christian should understand that wherever he may find the truth it is his Lord's.

The Bible is there to enable God's people to be equipped to do God's work in God's world, not to give them an excuse to sit back smugly, knowing they possess all God's truth.

As we grow in the knowledge of God's holiness, even though we are growing in the practice of holiness, it seems the gap between our knowledge and our practice always gets wider. This is the Holy Spirit's way of drawing us to more and more holiness.

The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living.

The good word of the Lord with which we must nourish is the simple doctrine of the gospel. We need not fear either simplicity or repetition.

Sanctification grows out of faith in Jesus Christ. Reemember holiness is a flower, not a root; it is not sanctification that saves, but salvation that sanctifies.

Do not be content to live a mediocre Christian life: walk with determination along the path of holiness.

Holiness is not the way to Christ. Christ is the way to holiness.

All truth is God's truth.

There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not.

Sanctification is a community project.

The Bible never tells us to take a blind leap of faith into the darkness and hope that there's somebody out there. The Bible calls us to jump out of the darkness and into the light. That is not a blind leap. The faith that the New Testament calls us to is a faith rooted and grounded in something that God makes clear is the truth.

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.