This book [the Bible] had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn’t have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don’t lie and deceive. It couldn’t have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.
– John Wesley –
God’s command to “pray without ceasing” is founded on the necessity we have of his grace to preserve the life of God in the Soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.
– John Wesley –
Let me do nothing today without calmness of soul.
– John Wesley –
I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.
– John Wesley –
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.
– John Wesley –
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –
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 –
You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. It is not your business to preach so many times; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance, and with all your power to build them up in that holiness, without which they cannot see the Lord.
– John Wesley –
from the Methodist’s “Twelve Rules”
Beware you are not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
– John Wesley –