zitiert in »George Whitefield - Der Erwecker Englands und Amerikas« von Benedikt Peters, CLV Bielefeld, 1. Auflage 1997, ISBN 3-89397-374-5, S. 9
Original engl.: "I love those that thunder out the word! The Christian world is in a deep sleep. Nothing but a loud voice can waken them out of it!"
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George Whitefield
Geburtstag: 16. Dezember 1714
Todesdatum: 29. September 1770
George Whitefield war ein englischer Geistlicher. Der Prediger war Mitbegründer des Methodismus, einer aus der anglikanischen Kirche erwachsenen religiösen Erweckungsbewegung. Wikipedia
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zitiert in »George Whitefield - Der Erwecker Englands und Amerikas« von Benedikt Peters, CLV Bielefeld, 1. Auflage 1997, ISBN 3-89397-374-5, S. 28
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.
„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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„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.
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 518.
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