John Wesley Quotes
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.
Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion?
Do all things without murmurings and disputings.
Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
Do you know that God is everywhere? He is as much present in the Eastern parts as in the Western, and in the Northern as well as the Southern.
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
When I am well, I cannot easily think of sickness; and in time of health, I cannot think of death.
The world is my parish.
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergy or lay, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
There is no holiness but social holiness.
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another.
Catch on fire with the desire to help others and people will come from miles to watch you burn.
The best of it is, God is with us.
The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
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? Oh, be not weary of well-doing!
The true republic of heaven, the genuine social life.
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.
Every Christian is a missionary; every unbeliever is a mission field.
You have one business on earth—to save souls.
The voice of God is to him that finds.
The question is not how much do I give, but how much can I keep?
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
Prayer [is] where the action is.
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
The essence of Christian holiness does not consist in what we eat or drink or in the observance of holy days, but lies in the extent, renewing the heart after the image of Him that created it.
What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
O, stand in awe and sin not! Do not speak too fast, but deep! Utter abroad the love and power of God which is for all.
Spread Scriptural holiness throughout the land.
Give me one hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God. I care not whether they be clergy or lay, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
I look upon all the world as my parish.
I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.
The devil doesn’t care how spiritual you are, how conscientious, how devout, how pure, how fervent—just so you don’t pray.
Whether we like it or not, asking is the rule of the Kingdom.
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?
Grieve not, relent not, till he stops from evil to be wise.
Would you judge of the lawfulness or unlawfulness of pleasure? Take this rule: Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God or takes off your relish of spiritual things—in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind, that is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.
Give me ten thousand souls who hate nothing but sin and love nothing but God, and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of heaven on earth.
Be not so positive; you do not yourself understand the subject. Do you not know that God is everywhere? God is as much present on the Eastern as on the Western shore…
Let us never forget to pray. God lives; He is near. He is real. He is not only present around us, He is within us. He is more indulgent than we think.
It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?
We should be continually laboring to cut off useless expense.
Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
It is not your business to succeed, but to do right. When you have done so, the rest lies with God.
We must not regard money or anything else as our own. If God had given it to us, we must have been stewards of His goods, and have traded with them, as it were, for His benefit.
When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy, and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and then gives all he can… God is with him—there is no doubt about that. God stands by the honest; He stands by the industrious; He stands by the virtuous. And He will stand by you.
Do not let your zeal abate; walk, run, fly, keep pace with it; and let all your words and works testify that you are indeed filled with the Holy Spirit.