Top 100 Quotes About John Wesley
#1. The Last Canyon by John Vernon is a beautiful retelling of John Wesley Powell's 1869 exploration of the Grand Canyon and his and his men's inevitable and tragic clash with a tribe of Paiute Indians who lived on the canyon's northern edge.
Nancy Pearl
#2. John Wesley said that if you give up the witchcraft, you must give up the Bible. He is right. The choice is easy for me.
Rupert Hughes
#3. One of the great virtues of Christianity, according to (John)Wesley, is the way it fills up our every waking hour. Both (N.T.) Wright and Wesley write that Christianity is not just about what God does for us but what God does in us.
John Meunier
#4. Some have exalted religious fasting beyond all Scripture and reason; and others have utterly disregarded it. - JOHN WESLEY
Richard J. Foster
#5. John Wesley quaintly observed that the road to heaven is a narrow path, not intended for wheels, and that to ride in a coach here and to go to heaven hereafter, was a happiness too much for man.
Henry Ward Beecher
#6. 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 to me. - John Wesley
John Wesley
#7. And when Elmer was about to slip out to the kitchen with her to make lemonade, Benham held him by demanding, 'What do you think of John Wesley's doctrine of perfection?'
'Oh, it's absolutely sound and proven,' admitted Elmer, wondering what the devil Mr. Wesley's doctrine of perfection might be.
Sinclair Lewis
#8. John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.
Samuel Johnson
#9. Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.
Stanley Hauerwas
#10. John Wesley's own grave holds the bones of many other people, including at least five ministers. One can only imagine the bickering.
Jared Brock
#11. But though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake any more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit. JOHN WESLEY
William Thrasher
#12. Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn.
John Wesley
#13. Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.
John Wesley
#14. Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.
John Wesley
#15. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
John Wesley
#16. You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it, you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
John Wesley Powell
#17. Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.
John Wesley
#18. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.
John Wesley
#20. Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.
John Wesley
#21. The glories and the beauties of form, color, and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop, from cataract to bubbling fountain.
John Wesley Powell
#22. It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?
John Wesley
#23. none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.
John Wesley
#24. 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
#25. He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.
John Wesley
#26. Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth
John Wesley
#27. I have never known more than fifteen minutes of anxiety or fear. Whenever I feel fearful emotions overtaking me, I just close my eyes and thank God that He is still on the throne reigning over everything and I take comfort in His control over the affairs of my life.
John Wesley
#28. 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
John Wesley
#29. The best thing of all is God is with us.
John Wesley
#30. He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.
John Wesley
#31. Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.
John Wesley
#32. All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
John Wesley
#33. The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
John Wesley Powell
#34. Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.
John Wesley
#35. The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
John Wesley
#36. God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
John Wesley
#37. To slay the sinner is then the first use of the Law, to destroy the life and strength wherein he trusts and convince him that he is dead while he lives; not only under the sentence of death, but actually dead to God, void of all spiritual life, dead in trespasses and sins.
John Wesley
#38. The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
John Wesley
#39. One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
John Wesley
#40. Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.
John Wesley
#41. If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.
John Wesley
#42. God grant that I may never live to be useless!
John Wesley
#43. You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.
John Wesley
#44. As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.
John Wesley
#45. 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
#46. Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.
John Wesley
#47. I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.
John Wesley
#48. The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
John Wesley Powell
#49. As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.
John Wesley
#50. A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.
John Wesley
#52. I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.
John Wesley
#54. I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.
John Wesley
#55. Possible ideas and thoughts are vast in number. A distinct word for every distinct idea and thought would require a vast vocabulary. The problem in language is to express many ideas and thoughts with comparatively few words.
John Wesley Powell
#56. Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree ...
John Wesley
#57. God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.
John Wesley
#58. I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
John Wesley
#60. Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.
John Wesley
#61. 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.
John Wesley
#62. Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.
John Wesley
#63. In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.
John Wesley
#64. Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.
John Wesley
#66. Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn.
John Wesley
#67. 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!
John Wesley
#68. It is clear that the chief end of mathematical study must be to make the students think.
John Wesley Young
#69. 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
#70. True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.
John Wesley
#72. 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
#73. If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
John Wesley
#75. Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.
John Wesley
#76. 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.
John Wesley
#77. I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.
John Wesley
#78. What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
#79. The landscape everywhere, away from the river, is of rock - cliffs of rock; plateaus of rock; terraces of rock; crags of rock - ten thousand strangely carved forms.
John Wesley Powell
#80. Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.
John Wesley
#81. The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
John Wesley
#82. [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.
John Wesley
#83. A bullet to the front of the head demonstrates good marksmanship. A bullet to the back of the head demonstrates good judgement.
John Wesley Hardin
#84. I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?
John Wesley
#85. The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.
John Wesley
#86. I set myself on fire and people come to watch me burn.
John Wesley
#87. Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.
John Wesley
#88. Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.
John Wesley
#89. They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.
John Wesley
#90. The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
John Wesley
#91. I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!
John Wesley
#92. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
John Wesley
#93. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.
John Wesley
#94. I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.
John Wesley
#95. They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
John Wesley
#96. I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.
John Wesley
#97. Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
John Wesley
#98. At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.
John Wesley
#99. Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.
John Wesley
#100. In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.
John Wesley
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