George Whitefield Quotes

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

You see, rebellion, and the disobedience it causes, keeps us from having the power of God that's available to us as Christians.

If any fail to govern by what God has revealed, those are the wrongdoers.

Man's sin is in his failure to live what he is. Being the master of the earth, man forgets that he is the servant of God.

Rebellion against tyrants is obedience to God.

What matters most is a good and ready will to obey God.

The tragedy of life and of the world is not that men do not know God; the tragedy is that, knowing Him, they still insist on going their own way.

Christians are not in bondage to do things as the world does, and moreover, the traditions and rudiments of men are not necessary to honor God.

The history of all the great characters of the Bible is summed up in this one sentence: They acquainted themselves with God, and acquiesced His will in all things.

The Bible is proved to be a revelation from God, by the reasonableness and holiness of its precepts; all its commands, exhortations, and promises having the most direct tendency to make men wise, holy, and happy in themselves, and useful to one another.

But if we continue in sin, and rebel and harden our hearts, we shall become so inured and fixed in it, that it will be natural, and we shall choose it from time to time.

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Men are never safe against the temptation of claiming God too simply as the sanctifier of whatever we most fervently desire.

The existing governments of the world are the consequence of disobedience to the commands of God. But Christ came to bring men back to obedience by a new and living way.

Sin is the reason we rebel against authority.

Every time we sin in thought, word, or deed, we're essentially saying in that moment that, "I don't need you God. I don't want you God. I like my way better than your way."

The men who abandon themselves to the passions of this miserable life, are compared in Scripture to beasts.

To do my duty, I must obey God.

But God will have a people upon the earth to maintain the Bible, and the Bible only, as the standard of all doctrines and the basis of all reforms.

The young among us are, as a general thing, allied to the world. But few maintain a special warfare against the internal foe. But few have an earnest, anxious desire to know and do the will of God.

The righteousness of Jesus Christ is one of those great mysteries, which the angels desire to look into, and seems to be one of the first lessons that God taught men after the fall.

God is pretty explicit in what we're supposed to do - what man and woman are for. Now, at the same time, we're supposed to love everybody and accept people, and preach against the sins.

God may not accept a person to forgive him his sins, without an atonement, else he must give free license to sin both in angels and men, and then sin were no sin, and our God were no God.

If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.

If God himself did not compel obedience, than no man should try.