Quotes by John Wesley

About John Wesley:

John Wesley is credited with the foundation of the evangelical movement known as Methodism. His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism.
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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

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

To explain this a little further: Only the soul and the body are the natural constituent parts of men and women. The SPIRIT is not in the fundamental nature of humans but is the supernatural gift of God, TO BE FOUND IN CHRISTIANS ONLY.

John Wesley

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

John Wesley

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him th...

John Wesley

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

John Wesley

It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults.

John Wesley

The best thing of all is God is with us.

John Wesley

I look upon the whole world as my parish.

John Wesley

Prayer is where the action is.

John Wesley

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

John Wesley

I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.

John Wesley

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 wan...

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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.

John Wesley

By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewa...

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

Purge me from every sinful blot; My idols all be cast aside: Cleanse me from every evil thought, From all the filth of self and pride. The hatred of the carnal mind Out of my flesh at once remove: Give me a tender heart, resigned, And pure, and full ...

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Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three: That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself.

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I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

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

Author Bio

  • NameJohn Wesley
  • DescriptionChristian theologian
  • AliasesLover of mankind, and of common sense,
  • BornJune 17, 1703
  • DiedMarch 2, 1791
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionTheologian; Author; Cleric