“Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified” . . . “Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted” . . . “But what is Calvin, or what is Luther? Let us look above names and parties; let Jesus be our all in all - So that He is preached . . . . I care not who is uppermost. I know my place . . . Even to be the servant of all” . . . “I am content to wait till the judgement day for the clearing up of my reputation; and after I am dead I desire no other epitaph than this, ‘Here lies G.W. What sort of man he was the great day will discover'” (Dallimore, George Whitefield, 154).
Thursday, March 03, 2011
Quotation Friday: Whitefield's Humility
“Let the name of Whitefield perish, but Christ be glorified” . . . “Let my name die everywhere, let even my friends forget me, if by that means the cause of the blessed Jesus may be promoted” . . . “But what is Calvin, or what is Luther? Let us look above names and parties; let Jesus be our all in all - So that He is preached . . . . I care not who is uppermost. I know my place . . . Even to be the servant of all” . . . “I am content to wait till the judgement day for the clearing up of my reputation; and after I am dead I desire no other epitaph than this, ‘Here lies G.W. What sort of man he was the great day will discover'” (Dallimore, George Whitefield, 154).
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