I find you grow more and more famous in the learned world. As you have made a pretty considerable progress in the mysteries of electricity, I would now humbly recommend to your diligent, unprejudiced pursuit and study, the mystery of the new birth. It is a most important, interesting study; and, when mastered, will richly answer and repay you for all your pains. One, at whose bar we are shortly to appear, hath solemnly declared, without it we cannot enter the kingdom of heaven. You will excuse this freedom. I must have something of Christ in all my letters.
— George Whitefield (1714–1770), Erweckungsprediger
Related Bible passage: JHN.3.3
Topics: Grace & Redemption, Wisdom & Understanding, Witness & Mission
Occasions: For Reflection
George Whitefield
George Whitefield war ein englischer anglikanischer Geistlicher des 18. Jahrhunderts und eine prägende Leitfigur der frühen evangelikalen Erweckungsbewegung in Großbritannien und Nordamerika. Er wurde durch seine rhetorisch kraftvollen Freiluftpredigten bekannt, in denen er mit calvinistischer Prägung die Notwendigkeit der persönlichen Wiedergeburt betonte. Während seine Texte bis heute für missionarischen Eifer stehen, bleibt sein Wirken durch seinen eigenen Sklavenbesitz und seinen Einsatz für die Legalisierung der Sklaverei in Georgia historisch belastet.
All quotes by George Whitefield (38)
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller