Quote of the Day (George Whitefield, on Jesus as ‘God and Man in One Person’)

“He was God and man in one person, that God and man might be happy together again.”—English revivalist George Whitefield (1714-1770), May 21, 1740 letter to the Allegany Indians, in The Works of the Rev. George Whitefield, M.A. (1771)

Quote of the Day (George Whitefield, on God’s Promises)

“Plead His promises, be much in secret prayer, and never give God rest, till your soul is filled with all His fulness.”—English revivalist George Whitefield (1714-1770), Nov. 19, 1742 letter, Letters of George Whitefield, For the Period 1734-1742 (1771)

Quote of the Day (Rev. George Whitefield, on Human Extremity and God)

“Your extremity shall be God's opportunity.” — English revivalist Rev. George Whitefield, July 25, 1741 letter, in Letters of George Whitefield, for the Period 1734-1742 (1771)

Quote of the Day (Rev. George Whitefield, on Using the World)

“Use the world, but let it be as though you used it not.”—English revivalist preacher George Whitefield (1714-1770), Feb. 16, 1741 letter, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield (1771)

Quote of the Day (George Whitefield, on ‘The Renewal of Our Natures’)

“The renewal of our natures is a work of great importance. It is not to be done in a day. We have not only a new house to build up, but an old one to pull down.”— English revivalist and itinerant minister George Whitefield, March 6, 1735 letter, in The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A.: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts (1771)

Quote of the Day (George Whitefield, on the Gospel in the Heart)

“We can preach the Gospel of Christ no further than we have experienced the power of it in our own hearts.”—Methodist evangelist George Whitefield (1714-1770), diary entry November 14, 1739, in George Whitefield’s Journals (2000)

(This portrait of George Whitefield, by Joseph Belcher, was included in George Whitefield: A Biography, With Special Reference to His Labors in America, 1857)