George Whitefield Quotes

Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

George Whitefield

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• To focus our mind on the task at hand-with fierce concentration-m akes for a productive use of time.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Hand

• Took the G out yo waffle, all you got left is your ego.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Ego
  • Left
  • Waffles

• Sin is blatant mutiny against God, and either sin or God must die in my life.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Die

• There are few problems in this world that cannot be solved by a swift roundhouse kick to the face. In fact, there are none.

  

  Chuck Norris
  • World
  • Problems
  • Roundhouse

• I've never gotten anything out of his movies. They have felt constructed, faux intellectual and completely dead. Cinematographically uninteresting and infinitely boring. Godard is a fucking bore. He's made his films for the critics. One of the movies, Masculin, feminin, was shot here in Sweden. It was mindnumbingly boring.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Movies
  • Boring

• When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre.

  

  Plato
  • Wisdom
  • Harmony
  • True Man

• Gravity is a response to geometry.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Response
  • Gravity
  • Geometry

• When self control is lacking in small things, the ability to apply it to matters of importance withers away. Every day in which one does not at least deny himself some trifle is badly spent and a threat to the day following.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Ability
  • Matters
  • Lacking

• I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Words
  • Thought
  • Afterwards

• The idea, which constitutes the actual being of the human mind, is not simple, but compounded of a great number of ideas.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Idea
  • Human Mind
  • Constitutes

• What is desperately needed... is the skepticism and the sense of history that a liberal arts education provides.

  

  Felix Rohatyn
  • History
  • Sense
  • Skepticism

• Too much detail is apt, like any other form of extravagance, to become slightly vulgar.

  

  Willa Cather
  • Form
  • Details
  • Vulgar

• I only regret I have but one live to give for my country.

  

  Nathan Hale
  • Live
  • Country
  • Regret

• Ecclesiastes said that "all is vanity," Most modern preachers say the same, or show it By their examples of true Christianity: In short, all know, or very short may know it.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Christianity
  • Vanity
  • Preachers

• Everyday - it's a gettin' closer,Goin' faster than a roller coaster.Love like yours will surely come my wayA hey - a hey hey.

  

  Buddy Holly
  • Everyday

• Racism is if there are spectators or, outside the field of play, there are movements to discrimination, but, on the field of play, I deny that there is racism.

  

  Sepp Blatter
  • Racism
  • Movement
  • Fields

• No Georgian has the right to evade or neglect his duties and responsibilities.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • Right
  • Neglect
  • Duties

• I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.

  

  David Feherty
  • Christianity
  • Disrespect
  • Columbus

• Nothing is more generally known than our duties which belong to Christianity; and yet, how amazing is it, nothing is less practiced?

  

  George Whitefield
  • Christianity
  • Duties
  • Practiced