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Quotes from John Wesley

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
~ John Wesley
Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
~ John Wesley
They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
~ John Wesley
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.
~ John Wesley
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
~ John Wesley
Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
~ John Wesley
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
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
~ John Wesley
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.
~ John Wesley
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
~ John Wesley
There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
~ John Wesley
When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
~ John Wesley
By justification we are saved from the guilt of sin…by sanctification we are saved from the power and root of sin
~ John Wesley
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
~ John Wesley
God grant that I may never live to be useless!
~ John Wesley
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
~ John Wesley
God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.
~ John Wesley
Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
~ John Wesley
My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.
~ John Wesley
Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
~ John Wesley
The best of it all is, God is with us.
~ John Wesley
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
~ John Wesley
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
~ John Wesley
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