Frases de George Whitefield

George Whitefield , ministro de la Iglesia de Inglaterra, fue un dirigente destacado del movimiento metodista. Llegó a ser muy conocido por su entusiasta predicación en las colonias americanas del Imperio Británico, destacándose claramente como el principal dirigente del primer movimiento evangélico en el nuevo mundo, denominado Primer Gran Despertar, una sucesión espontánea de "avivamientos" cristianos protestantes en las colonias angloamericanas. Algunos historiadores le han llegado a denominar "la primera celebridad moderna", por su reconocimiento entre las clases populares. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. diciembre 1714 – 29. septiembre 1770
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George Whitefield: Frases en inglés

“I have just put my soul as a blank into the hand of Jesus, my Redeemer, and desired Him to write on it what He pleases; I know it will be His image.”

Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.

“Come poor, lost, undone sinner, come just as you are to Christ.”

Reported in Ernest Bormann, Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), p. 73. ISBN 978-0-80932-369-2.

“Why should the Devil have all the best tunes?”

Attributed to Whitefield, in The Monthly Review, or, Literary Journal, Vol. 49 (June 1773 - January 1774), p. 430; this has also been reported as a remark made by Rowland Hill, when he arranged an Easter hymn to the tune of "Pretty, Pretty Polly Hopkins, in The Rambler, Vol. 9 (1858), p. 191; it has also attributed to Charles Wesley, and sometimes his brother John, as well as William Booth, who popularized it as an addage in promoting his The Salvation Army.
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