George Whitefield
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"George Whitefield", also known as George Whitfield, was an English Anglicanism/Anglican cleric who helped spread the First Great Awakening/Great Awakening in Britain and, especially, in the Thirteen colonies/American colonies.

Born in Gloucester, England, he attended Pembroke College, Oxford University, where he met the Wesley brothers. He was one of the founders of Methodism and of the evangelical movement generally. In 1740, Whitefield traveled to America, where he preached a series of revivals that came to be known as the "Great Awakening." He became perhaps the best-known preacher in Kingdom of Great Britain/Great Britain and British North America/North America during the 18th century. Because he traveled throughout the American colonies and drew great crowds and news coverage, he was one of the most widely-recognized public figures in colonial America.

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

We are immortal until our work on earth is done.

My brethren, if you were left to yourselves, you would be overcome by every temptation with which you are beset.

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

Numberless marks does man bear in his soul, that he is fallen and estranged from God; but nothing gives a greater proof thereof, than that backwardness, which every one finds within himself, to the duty of praise and thanksgiving.

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.

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

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

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