Quote: Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. [John Wesley]
Quote: The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion. [John Wesley]
Quote: Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. [John Wesley]
Quote: Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. [John Wesley]
Quote: Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me. [John Wesley]
Quote: The best of it is, God is with us. [John Wesley]
Quote: Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can. [John Wesley]
Quote: Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can. [John Wesley]
Quote: I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn. [John Wesley]
Quote: Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. [John Wesley]
Quote: Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness. [John Wesley]
Quote: Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. [John Wesley]
Quote: Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. [John Wesley]
Quote: Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can [John Wesley]
Quote: Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. "Cleanliness is indeed next
to godliness." [John Wesley]
Quote: Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn. [John Wesley]
Quote: Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you
burn. [John Wesley]
Quote: Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 I met the society and explained to them ... the original design of the Methodists, namely, not to be a distinct party, but to stir up all parties, ... to worship God in spirit and in truth; but the Church of England in particular, to which they belonged from the beginning. With this view I have uniformly gone on for fifty years, never varying from the doctrine of the Church at all; nor from her discipline, of choice, but of necessity. [John Wesley]
Quote: Feast of Saints & Martyrs of England I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church. [John Wesley]
Quote: Commemoration of John Bosco, Priest, Founder of the Salesian Teaching Order, 1888 I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. [John Wesley]
Quote: Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches. [John Wesley]
Quote: Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion. Therefore I do not see how it is possible in the nature of things for any revival of religion to continue long. For religion must necessarily produce both industry and frugality, and these cannot but produce riches. But as riches increase, so will pride, anger, and love of the world in all its branches. How then is it possible that Methodism, that is a [John Wesley]
Quote: Ascension Feast of John and Charles Wesley, Priests, Poets, Teachers, 1791 & 1788 The grand reason why the miraclous gifts were so soon withdrawn was not only that faith and holiness were well-nigh lost, but that dry, formal, orthodox men began then to ridicule whatever gifts they had not themselves and to cry them all [down] as evil madness or imposture. [John Wesley]
Quote: Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. [John Wesley]
Quote: Commemoration of Nicholas Ferrar, Deacon, Founder of the Little Gidding Community, 1637 Suffer all, and conquer all. [John Wesley]