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.
— George Whitefield
zitiert in »George Whitefield - Der Erwecker Englands und Amerikas« von Benedikt Peters, CLV Bielefeld, 1. Auflage 1997, ISBN 3-89397-374-5, S. 28
— George Whitefield
zitiert in »George Whitefield - Der Erwecker Englands und Amerikas« von Benedikt Peters, CLV Bielefeld, 1. Auflage 1997, ISBN 3-89397-374-5, S. 9
— George Whitefield
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 518.
— George Whitefield
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 543.
— George Whitefield
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.
— George Whitefield
Reported in Ernest Bormann, Force of Fantasy: Restoring the American Dream (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1985), p. 73. .
