George Whitefield Quotes

What the purpose of my life is about is I want to become the kind of person that God wants me to become, and through my study of the scriptures, I can articulate the kind of person that God would be happy if I become.

We are all on a journey of faith, and we have to polish that faith.

Part of the faith walk is to understand your weaknesses and is to constantly try to embetter yourself and get closer to the Lord.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

No, God does not need us to love Him. But oh, how we need to love God! For what we love determines what we seek. What we seek determines what we think and do. What we think and do determines who we are - and who we will become.

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God.

Every person has the freedom to choose to give their heart and give their life to God or not. You can't force someone to love God - or to love anyone.

One of my passions is helping people understand the Word. I think the most important thing we should be thinking about is who created us and how we were created to live. So I thought that I want to spend a lot of my time actually studying God's Word.

Christians already? It seems to me that it takes a lifetime of work.

The ultimate test of our spirituality is the measure of our amazement at the grace of God.

God does love you and that, hopefully, you get to the point that you realize that having a relationship with God should be first and foremost in your life.

Little works, little thoughts, little loves, little prayers for little Christians, and larger and larger as the years grow.

Immerse yourself in the curriculum of grace.

I now opened my Bible and began to study, and faith has been growing ever since.

Prayer without study would be empty. Study without prayer would be blind.

The more we grow in Love, Virtue and Holiness, the more we see Love, Virtue and Holiness outside.

My father was a minister for 50 years with Pentecostal Church of God in Christ. We prayed about everything, every day, then he always said, "Amen. God is love." I thought God is love was one word. Like "Godislove." And it took me a long time to learn what that really meant.

Love invites the Holy Ghost to be present to confirm truth. And the joy of learning divine truths creates love in the hearts of people who shared the experience of learning.

When I say, 'I love Christ and love the teachings of Christ,' I mean that in the most simple and naive way. I'm not saying I'm right.

I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.

I think that growth and spiritual awareness come in slow increments. Sometimes you don't know it's happening.

The Lord is pleased with every effort, even the tiny, daily ones in which we strive to be more like Him.

God our Lord would have us look to the Giver and love Him more than His gift, keeping Him always before our eyes, in our hearts, and in our thoughts.

Man learns through experience, and the spiritual path is full of different kinds of experiences. He will encounter many difficulties and obstacles, and they are the very experiences he needs to encourage and complete the cleansing process.

Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily. It must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and, more that all, must be prayed for.