Quotes from John Wesley

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

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

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.

I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that 'her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace?'

Prayer is where the action is.

Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

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.

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

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

Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

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

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

I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt.

What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

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

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

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.

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

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.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.