George Whitefield Quotes

Abstinence from sins is better than seeking help afterwards.

Purity doesn't happen by accident; it requires obedience to God.

We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.

In the mean time I worship God, laying every wrong action under an interdict which I endeavour to respect, and I loathe the wicked without doing them any injury.

God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.

If you would not step into the harlot's house, do not go by the harlot's door.

In short, all things that please the natural man in this world, are, to a true Christian, only so many crosses and temptations, allurements of sin and snares of death, that continually exercise his virtue.

Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.

Lord keep us all from sin. Teach us how to walk circumspectly; enable us to guard our minds against error of doctrine, our hearts against wrong feelings, and our lives against evil actions.

Moral training in Ireland is severe and lasts until marriage. Even in childhood, we are taught by the pious clergy to battle against bad thoughts so that we may preserve our holy purity.

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

Holiness is the sum of a million little things — the avoidance of little evils and little foibles, the setting aside of little bits of worldliness and little acts of compromise, the putting to death of little inconsistencies and little indiscretions, the attention to little duties and little dealings, the hard work of little self-denials and little self-restraints, the cultivation of little benevolences and little forbearances.

Those who operate through the Holy Spirit are more equipped to resist temptation.

I learned from my Adventist upbringing that the biggest sins were sexual.

When God calls a man to be upright and pure and generous, he also calls him to be intelligent and skillful, and strong and brave.

Don't let your sins turn into bad habits.

He that serves God is resigned up into him, and in all things has respect to truth and righteousness, and will promote that.

One cannot possibly understand the teaching of the saints unless one has a pure mind and is trying to imitate their life.

He hath freedom whoso beareth clean and constant heart within.

To have prevented one single sin is reward enough for the labors and efforts of a whole lifetime.

The great test of life is obedience to God.

No one can ever enter the celestial kingdom unless he is strictly honest.

For the Puritans, the God-centered life meant making the quest for spiritual and moral holiness the great business of life.

Whoso will pray, he must fast and be clean, And fat his soul, and make his body lean.

The way to preserve the peace of the church is to preserve its purity.