Quotes from John Wesley

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed.

I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief?

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.

If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.

Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

[Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.

I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin?

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The best thing of all is God is with us.

O never give me over to my own heart's desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations!

Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.

Always remember the essence of Christian holiness is simplicity and purity: one design, one desire: entire devotion to God.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

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.

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

The best of it is, God is with us.