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Fight the good fight of faith, and God will give you spiritual mercies.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

Take care of your life and the Lord will take care of your death.

Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts

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

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

Following Christ means following him through life, following him in every word and gesture, following him out of one clime into another.

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

The fall of man is written in too legible characters not to be understood: Those that deny it, by their denying, prove it.

I was honored today with having a few stones, dirt, rotten eggs, and pieces of dead cat thrown at me

Let us ... once and forever put an end to that lie which says that Calvinism and an interest in evangelism are not comparable.

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

Speak every time my dear brother as if it were your last

Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

The care of the soul is 'a matter of the highest importance;' beyond any thing which can be brought into comparison with it.

Study to know Him more and more, for the more you know, the more you will love Him,

Works? Works? A man get to heaven by works? I would as soon think of climbing to the moon on a rope of sand!

Though you have sinned much, that is no reason why you should despair, but only why you should love much, having so much forgiven.

For in Jesus Christ there is neither male nor female, bond nor free; even you may be the children of God, if you believe in Jesus.

The Judge is before the door: he that cometh will come, and will not tarry: his reward is with him.

You blame me for weeping, but how can I help it when you will not weep for yourselves, though your immortal souls are on the verge of destruction.

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.

My prayer today is that God would make me an extraordinary Christian.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

Ministers never write or preach so well as when under the cross.

See that you feel the truths that you speak.

You need not fear the greatness or number of your sins.

I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month, than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men.

At the day of judgment we shall all meet again.

Christ is worth all, or he is worth nothing.

We must all have the spirit of martyrdom, though we may not all die martyrs.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

It is an undoubted truth that every doctrine that comes from God, leads to God; and that which doth not tend to promote holiness is not of God.

I am never better than when I am on the full stretch for God.

Congregations are lifeless because dead men preach to them.

The sinner can no more raise himself from the deadness of sin than Lazarus, who had been dead four days, until Jesus came.

Lord, help me to begin to begin.

God enabled me to speak with the demonstration of the Spirit, and with power.

God is well pleased when all our actions proceed from love, love to Himself, and love to immortal souls.

Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted

Give diligent heed to the things that are spoken from the Word of God.

It is God alone who can subdue and govern the unruly wills of sinful men.

Let us, therefore, not be weary of well-doing; for we shall reap an eternal harvest of comfort, if we faint not.

Whole days and weeks have I spent prostrate on the ground in silent or vocal prayer.

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

I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.

Various are the pleas and arguments which men of corrupt minds frequently urge against yielding obedience to the just and holy commands of God.

You see, my brethren, my heart is full; I could almost say it is too big to speak, and yet too big to be silent, without dropping a word to you.

We are immortal till our work is done.

To preach more than half an hour, a man should be an angel himself or have angels for hearers.

Oh let us continually keep faith in exercise, till it be entirely swallowed up in the boundless ocean of beatific vision.

All our afflictions, all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable, and earth more loathsome.

I am tired in the Lord's work, but not tired of it.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye, and then let men or devils do their worst!

I found by daily experience, the more I did, the more I might do for God.

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

God forbid that I should travel with anybody a quarter of an hour without speaking of Christ to them.

For it pleased God, after he had made all things by the word of his power, to create man after his own image.

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

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

Open your hearts as wide as ever you will, the Spirit of the Lord shall fill them.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

Other men may preach the gospel better than I, but no man can preach a better gospel.

The Christian world is in a deep sleep; nothing but a loud shout can awaken them out of it!

Be content with no degree of sanctification. Be always crying out, "Lord, let me know more of myself and of thee."

No, the religion of Jesus is a social religion.

There is not a thing on the face of the earth that I abhor so much as idleness or idle people.

Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified

Jesus was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.

What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand!

You might as reasonably expect to find a living man without breath, as a true Christian without the spirit of prayer and supplication.

Pray that I may be very little in my own eyes, and not rob my dear Master of any part of his glory.

Had I a hundred hands, I could employ them all. The harvest is very great. I am ashamed I can do no more for him who has done so much for me.

O turn to Him [Jesus Christ], turn in a sense of your own unworthiness, and be not faithless, but believing.

The true believer can no more live without prayer, than without food day by day.