John Wesley quotes

John Wesley was an English theologian and preacher, best known as the founder of Methodism. His teachings emphasized personal faith, social justice, and practical Christianity. He inspired a religious revival that influenced millions across the world. Here are 124 of his quotes:

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 you ever can. (John Wesley)
The best of all is God with us. View quote
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Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. View quote
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The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy. View quote
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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. View quote
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When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man! View quote
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Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless. View quote
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What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. View quote
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We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others. View quote
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In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church. View quote
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Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences. (John Wesley)
You have one business on earth – to save souls. View quote
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Prayer is where the action is. View quote
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I look upon the whole world as my parish. View quote
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Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can. View quote
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It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. View quote
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Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable. View quote
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Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God's money will I keep for myself? View quote
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I am always in haste, but never in a hurry. View quote
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Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. View quote
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I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation. (John Wesley)
I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin. View quote
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I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant. View quote
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I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America. View quote
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As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it. View quote
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