George Whitefield Quotes

I look at tens of thousands of church leaders who still do need a bit of an awakening.

When is a revival needed? When carelessness and unconcern keep the people asleep.

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

A revival is the church falling in love with Jesus Christ all over again.

No man ever made himself to live. No preacher, however earnest, can make one hearer to live. No parent, however prayerful, no teacher, however tearful, can make a child live unto God. “You hath HE quickened,” is true of all who are quickened.

Revival is an infusion of new spiritual life imparted by the Holy Spirit to existing parts of Christ's body.

The church can have light only as it is full of the Spirit, and it can be full only as the members that compose it are filled individually.

Hearken, my believing reader. What is the cause of your weakness? Is it not because the fountain of life is little used? Is it not because you are resting on old experiences, and not daily gathering new manna—daily drawing new strength from Christ?

A genuine revival without joy in the Lord is as impossible as spring without flowers, or day-dawn without light.

Revival precedes evangelism. The church must first repent. This is the blind spot in our eye today.

As we move into the 21st century, there's what the Bible calls a 'quickening of the spirit.'

A revival does two things. First, it returns the Church from her backsliding and second, it causes the conversion of men and women; and it always includes the conviction of sin on the part of the Church. What a spell the devil seems to cast over the Church today!

Without such a Life, the Word as to the letter is dead.

They tell me a revival is only temporary; so is a bath, but it does you good.

In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.

The Resurrection miracle is nothing to you and me if it is only an event of eighteen centuries bygone. Unless we can live the immortal life - unless we can receive God to his own home in these hearts of ours - the texts are nothing to us unless these daily lives illustrate them.

Only God can turn our nation and the hearts of its people.

My thing is, get Jesus to come and live inside, and let Him start cleaning house.

The first step to eternal life is you have to die.

Being filled with the Spirit is shown to have had a dynamic and energizing effect or power in the New Testament and in the lives of millions of people since then.

I discovered that no revival comes if we don't preach the Word of God under the anointing of the Holy Spirit. If we only have the Great Commission and only the Holy Spirit, we have power without purpose, or purpose without power. It is a package deal, and that is what God honors.

A lot of people can talk about their faith. When you live it every day and act on the word of God, it's pretty cool to see.

We're born spiritually dead, and I'm calling for everyone to become spiritually alive. Secondly, don't wait until later to live the way you were created.

Revival is simply New Testament Christianity, the saints going back to normal.

All the hope of our ministry lies in the Spirit of God operating on the spirits of men.