George Whitefield Quotes

I used to tell people when I preached at a church, 'If you want a great sermon, be a great audience.'

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

I am no theologian. I am a layman. I am among those who are preached to, and who listen. It is not for me to preach. I should not willingly forego being a listener, a man who reads the Gospels and then listens to what others say that our Lord meant. But sometimes a listener speaks out, and listens to his own voice.

Eighteen years ago, the Holy Spirit led me to establish a church in the heart of Times Square.

There are many preachers who don't hear themselves.

A good pastor knows when they can't put two sentences together.

A sermon often does a man most good when it makes him most angry. Those people who walk down the aisles and say, "I will never hear that man again," very often have an arrow rankling in their breast.

When we listen to the Inner Voice, our outer life becomes full of peace.

We are trying not so much to make God listen to us as to make ourselves listen to him; we are trying not to persuade God to do what we want, but to find out what he wants us to do. It so often happens that in prayer we are really saying, 'Thy will be changed,' when we ought to be saying, 'Thy will be done.' The first object of prayer is not so much to speak to God as to listen to him.

Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.

The most important of all the commandments of God is that one that you are having the most difficulty keeping today.

It is better just to get on with the business of living and minding your own business and maybe, if God likes the way you do things, he may just let you flower for a day or a night. But don't go pestering and begging and telling him all your stupid little sins, that way you will spoil his day.

Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart.

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

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

What to change your life? Begin by saying, "The Lord is my shepherd."

If your theological convictions are not producing a deeper love for others, then it's time to rethink some stuff.

Get up; repent. Come to God. Get the pattern of your life from Him, and then go about your work and be yourself.

When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message.

It's important to preach like there's a broken heart on every pew. That's always been a phrase that stuck with me. Not everybody is having a tough time, but you can bet your buck that there's a good tenth of your church that's going through a hard season. There really is a broken heart on every pew.

Do not go on His errands till first you have sat at His feet.

If ye keep watch over your hearts, and listen for the Voice of God and learn of Him, in one short hour ye can learn more from Him than ye could learn from Man in a thousand years.

God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend.

I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided.