Pithy Gems from George Whitefield. You may have orthodox heads, and yet you may have the devil in your hearts. How sweet is rest after fatigue. How sweet will heaven be when our journey is ended.

Be humble, talk little, think and pray much.

The Christian world is in a deep sleep. All our afflictions and all our temptations are to make heaven more desirable and earth more loathsome.

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

O for a thousand lives to be spent in the service of Christ! Left to himself, man is half beast and half devil.

God, give me a deep humility, a well-guided zeal, a burning love and a single eye.

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

I expect perpetual conflicts and struggles in this life. I expect only a cross while on this side of eternity.

There are many who go on in a round of religious duties who think that they will go to heaven when they die. But if you examine them, though they have a Christ in their heads, they have no Christ in their hearts.