John Wesley Quotes

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

Untold millions are still untold.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.

Prayer is where the action is.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.

I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin ... by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin

God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.

The best of it is, God is with us.

He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

Do no harm. Do good. Stay in love with God.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Men of learning began to set experiments aside ... to form theories ... and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself?

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.

Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

I look upon all the world as my parish.

The church changes the world not by making converts but by making disciples.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

The best of all is God with us

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

The best thing of all is God is with us.

Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.

I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission field.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds ... you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

Think and let think.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist?

(not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,)

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

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.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.