George Whitefield Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

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

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Sweet, Blessing

  George Whitefield (1771). “Letters of George Whitefield, for the Period 1734-1742”, p.451, Banner of Truth

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

  George Whitefield

  Spiritual, Moon, Heaven

• John Wesley tells of a dream he had. In the dream, he was ushered to the gates of Hell. There he asked, "Are there any Presbyterians here?" "Yes!", came the answer. Then he asked, "Are there any Baptists? Any Episcopalians? Any Methodists?" The answer was Yes! each time. Much distressed, Wesley was then ushered to the gates of Heaven. There he asked the same question, and the answer was No! "No?" To this, Wesley asked, "Who then is inside?" The answer came back, "There are only Christians here."

  George Whitefield

  Christian, Dream, Heaven

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

  George Whitefield

  Moon, Men, Thinking

• Man is nothing; he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him" and "you dishonour God by denying election. You plainly make salvation depend, not on God's 'free grace' but on Man's 'free will.'

  George Whitefield

  Men, Heaven, Grace

• There are many likewise, who go on in a round of duties, a model of performances, that think they shall go to heaven; but if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.

  George Whitefield

  Heart, Thinking, Heaven

  George Whitefield (1772). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Original Papers and Letters”, p.337

• No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they had a faith which enabled them at that time to overcome the world, and by which they climbed up to heaven.

  George Whitefield

  Faith, Christian, Blessing

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

  George Whitefield

  Heaven, Temptation, Affliction

  George Whitefield (1832). “Sermons”, p.758

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

  George Whitefield

  Jesus, Children, Heaven

  George Whitefield (1828). “Sermons on important subjects ... With a memoir of the Author by S. Drew; and a dissertation on his character, preaching, etc., by Joseph [or rather Josiah] Smith”, p.45

• Man is nothing: he hath a free will to go to hell, but none to go to heaven, till God worketh in him to will and to do his good pleasure.

  George Whitefield

  Men, Heaven, Hell

  George Whitefield (1771). “The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters”, p.90

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