John Wesley famous quotes

04-17-2025

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
-- John Wesley

#Giving #Heaven #Desire
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

#Life #Motivational #Christmas
Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can
-- John Wesley

#Money #Giving
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
-- John Wesley

#Religion #Generations #Next
You have one business on earth â€“ to save souls.
-- John Wesley

#Soul #Missionary #Earth
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.
-- John Wesley

#Judging #Judging Others #Should
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

#Giving #Want #Naked
I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!
-- John Wesley

#Bible #Book #Land
October 6, 1774 I met those of our society who had votes in the ensuing election, and advised them 1. To vote, without fee or reward, for the person they judged most worthy 2. To speak no evil of the person they voted against, and 3. To take care their spirits were not sharpened against those that voted on the other side.
-- John Wesley

#Evil #Care #Rewards
God grant that I may never live to be useless!
-- John Wesley

#Useless #May #Grants
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
-- John Wesley

#Love #Book #Religion
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake...
-- John Wesley

#Mean #Son #Soul
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
-- John Wesley

#Reading #Knowing #People
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of Godâ€™s money will I keep for myself?
-- John Wesley

#Giving #Missionary #Missions
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.
-- John Wesley

#Pain #Prayer #Adversity
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
-- John Wesley

#Fire #People #Miles
Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
-- John Wesley

#Character #Religion #Vices
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. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.
-- John Wesley

#Children #Heart #Thinking
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
-- John Wesley

#Prayer #Use #Kind
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
-- John Wesley

#Dream #Moving #Community
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

#Phrases #Holiness #Christ
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
-- John Wesley

#Wisdom #Haste
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

#Persistence #Men #Together
I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.
-- John Wesley

#Trust #Taken #Law
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.
-- John Wesley

#Heart #Hands #Way
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.
-- John Wesley

#League #Vision #Needs
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

#Christian #Men #Giving

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