John Wesley QUOTES

1 " Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. "

― John Wesley

2 " Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing! "

― John Wesley

3 " Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness. "

― John Wesley

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

― John Wesley ,

5 " Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? "

― John Wesley

6 " By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth. "

― John Wesley

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

― John Wesley

8 " Purge me from every sinful blot;
My idols all be cast aside:
Cleanse me from every evil thought,
From all the filth of self and pride.

The hatred of the carnal mind
Out of my flesh at once remove:
Give me a tender heart, resigned,
And pure, and full of faith and love. "

― John Wesley

9 " When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! "

― John Wesley

10 " To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY. "

― John Wesley , How To Pray: The Best of John Wesley on Prayer

11 " The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world. "

― John Wesley , A Plain Account of Christian Perfection

12 " 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? "

― John Wesley

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

― John Wesley

14 " No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. "

― John Wesley

15 " You have one business on earth – to save souls. "

― John Wesley

16 " Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. "

― John Wesley ,

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

― John Wesley

18 " Untold millions are still untold. "

― John Wesley

19 " 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

20 " Cleanliness is next to Godliness. "

― John Wesley

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