Pithy gems from George Whitefield!

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You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts!

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How sweet is rest after fatigue! How sweet will Heaven be when our journey is ended!

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Be humble, talk little, think and pray much!

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The Christian world is in a deep sleep!

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All our afflictions and all our temptations—are to make Heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome!

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The Lord Jesus sits in Heaven, ruling over all, and causing all things to work for His children's good.

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Oh for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ!

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Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

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God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye!

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If one evil thought, if one evil word, if one evil action—deserves eternal damnation; then how many Hells do every one of us deserve, whose whole lives have been one continued rebellion against God!

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The reason why congregations have been so dead, is because they have dead men preaching to them! How can dead men beget living children?

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I expect perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life. I expect only a cross, while on this side of eternity.

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There are many who go on in a round of religious duties, who think that they will go to Heaven when they die. But if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads—they have no Christ in their hearts.