282 Quotes by John Wesley

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.

One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it – and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart.

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.

[H]is heart is ever lifted up to God at all times and in all places. In this he isnever hindered, much less interrupted, by any person or thing. In retirementor company, in leisure, business, or conversation, his heart is ever with theLord. Whether he lie down or rise up, God is in all his thoughts; he walkswith God continually, having the loving eye of his mind still fixed upon Him,and everywhere “seeing him that is invisible.”7

Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?

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

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