George Whitefield Quotes

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others.

There is no greater love than to lay down one's life for one's friends.

What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.

Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!

It is better for me to die in behalf of Jesus Christ, than to reign over all the ends of the earth.

Following Jesus means taking up one's own cross to accompany him on his path, an uncomfortable path that is not one of success or earthly glory, but which leads to true freedom, the freedom from selfishness and sin.

Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.

Jesus' life as a foot-washing servant would eventually lead to the adoption of humility as a widely admired virtue.

Greater love has no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Laying my will down for Jesus was laying my life down for others.

Now do I begin to be a disciple of Christ, and care for nothing in this world, that so I may find Jesus. Let fire, or the cross, or wild beasts, or the breaking of my bones, or the cutting of me to pieces, or the shattering of my whole body, yea, all the tortures of the devil - let them all come upon me, only let me enjoy my God.

He [Jesus Christ] is the Master of all as the Servant of all.

Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.

...there is power in self-sacrifice.

True love is the parent of humility.

Now I begin to be a disciple. I care for nothing, of visible or invisible things, so that I may but win Christ. Let fire and the cross, let the companies of wild beasts, let breaking of bones and tearing of limbs, let the grinding of the whole body, and all the malice of the devil, come upon me; be it so, only may I win Christ Jesus!

I could be martyred for my religion. Love is my religion and I could die for that. I could die for you.

Do we so appreciate the marvelous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?

Love, whether sexual, parental, or fraternal, is essentially sacrificial, and prompts a man to give his life for his friends.

Jesus, what made You so small? LOVE!

In the Christian sense, love is not primarily an emotion but an act of the will. When Jesus tells us to love our neighbors, he is not telling us to love them in the sense of responding to them with a cozy emotional feeling. You can as well produce a cozy emotional feeling as you can a cough or sneeze. On the contrary, he is telling us to love our neighbors in the sense of being willing to work for their well-being even if it means sacrificing our well-being to that end.

I am persuaded that love and humility are the highest attainments in the school of Christ and the brightest evidences that He is indeed our Master.

Consecrated life means going to the very root of the love of Jesus Christ with an undivided heart and putting nothing ahead of this love.