Top 100 Wesley Quotes

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

John Wesley

#2. It wouldn't be 'True Blood' if somebody didn't die.

Rutina Wesley

#3. Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would have been doing it.

Dean Wesley Smith

#4. Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.

Wesley Clark

#5. Reading Christians are growing Christians. When Christians cease to read, they cease to grow.

John Wesley

#6. China invaded India, and there was a war between India and China in some of the disputed terrain in 1962, and India got hurt by that.

Wesley Clark

#7. 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

#8. Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

John Wesley

#9. There's no need for a piece of sculpture in a home that has a cat.

Wesley W. Bates

#10. 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

#11. What I feared most, though, about my decision to remain celibate was that I had thereby doomed myself to lifelong loneliness.

Wesley Hill

#12. 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

#13. My mother told me once that she and my father agreed that I would not be brought up Jewish in Chicago. She had me going to a Methodist church.

Wesley Clark

#14. Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With angelic hosts proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem!

Charles Wesley

#15. Let us unite the two so long divided, knowledge and vital piety.

Charles Wesley

#16. Who has ownership over stories these days?

Rutina Wesley

#17. WESLEY AYERS is the stranger in the halls of the Coronado. He is the Keeper in the garden who shares my secret. He is the boy who reads me books. He is the one who teaches me how to touch.

Victoria Schwab

#18. Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces. Realism was the death of art. Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

Arthur Wesley Dow

#19. A three-legged dog
successfully crosses the road
to a new location
where there is greener grass
to piss on

Wesley Eisold

#20. Your sense of humor needs some work, then,' Wesley suggested. 'Most girls find my jokes charming.'
'Those girls must have IQs low enough to trip over.

Kody Keplinger

#21. Our men and women fighting in Iraq are held accountable for their performance and their conduct. On duty and off, twenty-four hours a day. They're fighting for us, for our safety, our rights, and our freedoms.

Wesley Clark

#22. I don't want to interact with people but I do get lonely.

Wesley Eisold

#23. My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

John Wesley

#24. Prayer is where the action is.

John Wesley

#25. Not from his head was woman took,
As made her husband to o'erlook;
Not from his feet, as one designed
The footstool of the stronger kind;
But fashioned for himself, a bride;
An equal, taken from his side.

Charles Wesley

#26. T'Pol." Archer made his voice sting with command. "You're coming dangerously close to violating a rule of the bridge. Don't nag the captain.

Dean Wesley Smith

#27. I am a writer because I write, an author because I create, a poet because the words are in my soul.

Wesley D. Gray

#28. It was at the graduate school at Columbia University that I first met Wesley C. Mitchell, with whom I was associated for many years at the National Bureau of Economic Research and to whom I owe a great intellectual debt.

Simon Kuznets

#29. Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

John Wesley

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.

John Wesley

#33. 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

#34. I worked as a singing, dancing busgirl in high school.

Rutina Wesley

#35. Wesley had called it self-destructive. Evan understood. It wasn't about flirting with death, like Mom. It was about wanting to live all the way to the seams of life.

Leah Raeder

#36. You can't expect drive and compassion from everyone who enters your life, but you have to demand it of the people you are creating with.

Wesley Eisold

#37. 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

#38. Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

John Wesley

#39. 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

#40. In a flash, at a trumpet crash, I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and This Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond.

Wesley Hill

#41. One of the cardinal rules of lying is to never, if it can be prevented, involve someone else in your story, because you can't control them. Which is why I want to punch myself when the lie that falls from my lips is, To hang out with Wesley.

Victoria Schwab

#42. 'The Tree of Life' is a collection of conversations that lost souls and true believers have with themselves while keeping their heads to the sky. But the movie is church via the planetarium.

Wesley Morris

#43. 'Blade' was amazing; I can't imagine the character without Wesley Snipes. He just made a long, black leather trench coat look so cool.

Kat Graham

#44. For the first stretch of road Olivia's eyes were sealed shut, her breath held hostage in her lungs.
"You might want to open your eyes," Wesley called back knowingly, his muffled voice breaking through both of their helmets. "And don't forget to breathe.

Shawn Kirsten Maravel

#45. 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

#46. The world spins despite me, not because of me, he muttered. Last week, one of his coworkers died after twenty-five years of service. There was an email and eulogy sent by one of the managers - and then a mad scramble by everyone else to loot his office supplies.

Wesley Chu

#47. Within the walls of Love Hall, Lord Loveall could command this kind of respect.

Wesley Stace

#48. The best thing of all is God is with us.

John Wesley

#49. My, my, my ... " She sighed, affecting a Southern drawl she no doubt stole from Wesley. "I see temptation has come a knockin' and you have answered the door ...

Tiffany Reisz

#50. I once faced a temptation that was so persistent and so overwhelming that I literally believed my whole world would go dark if I refused to give in to it," he said. "All I could do was scream to the Holy Spirit to keep me from it.

Wesley Hill

#51. 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

#52. 'True Blood' allows you to be big, so it's almost like you're on stage, and I'm comfortable with that.

Rutina Wesley

#53. The purpose of the European Union expansion is to bring stability to the East, and ultimately, that stability will come to Russia. There is no long term reason that Russia can't be part of the same peaceful community of nations.

Wesley Clark

#54. Wherever riches have increased, the essence of religion has decreased in the same proportion.

John Wesley

#55. I love to go to the movies with people, but a lot of the time it's me in a room with a bunch of other movie critics, which is fine.

Wesley Morris

#56. Be a Bible man, go so far as the Bible, but not an inch beyond it. Though Calvin should beckon you, and you esteem him, or Wesley should beckon, and you esteem him, keep to the Scripture, only to the Scripture! from the Sermon: Infallibility - Where To Find It and How To Use It

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#57. Roen said, I can't quit. I have rent, and a cat to support.

Wesley Chu

#58. Smitt walked up next to James and watched the planet slowly grow larger. They say the water used to be so blue you could see it from space.

Wesley Chu

#59. Internationally, I have as large of a fan base - if not larger - than I have domestically.

Wesley Snipes

#60. 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

#61. 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

#62. There's more to this amazing body than awe-inspiring abs. I have a pair of ears, too, and they happen to work superbly.

Kody Keplinger

#63. Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

Wesley Clark

#64. I wasn't some weird loner in school, but I definitely wasn't invited to any of the cool parties.

Paul Wesley

#65. I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.

Wesley Clark

#66. When the two become the one
And the inside outside, the outside in
So that the male be not male nor the female female
Then will you see me.

Wesley Stace

#67. I love Charles Fuller.

Rutina Wesley

#68. The truth is, about the Middle East is, had there been no oil there, it would be like Africa. Nobody is threatening to intervene in Africa.

Wesley Clark

#69. In movies, there are some things the French do that Americans are increasingly incapable of doing. One is honoring the complexities of youth. It's a quiet, difficult undertaking, requiring subtlety in a filmmaker and perception and patience from us.

Wesley Morris

#70. Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart.

John Wesley

#71. The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

John Wesley

#72. Poor decisions and bad luck are contingencies of most horror films.

Wesley Morris

#73. I was convicted of three misdemeanors of willful failure to file a form.

Wesley Snipes

#74. No one can train you to be famous. How do you deal with the loss of anonymity, the loss of privacy? You have to be disciplined.

Wesley Snipes

#75. Everything changed in Bosnia, when General Wesley Clark proved that you could fight a war with high- level precision air strikes and a bare minimum of ground action.

Joe Bob Briggs

#76. God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

John Wesley

#77. I've felt love from certain songs that I've wanted to experience from other people - where I know that love may never happen - and I want to give that to someone else.

Wesley Eisold

#78. I'm always moving apartments or moving houses or moving cities.

Paul Wesley

#79. For the United States to be a global leader, we have to have a very tight relationship with Europe. And we've held that relationship since 1949 when we established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO. NATO is the bond. It's a security bond.

Wesley Clark

#80. In the Mac vs. PC ads, Apple bills itself as the antidote to Microsoft. To love Apple wasn't to sell out. It was to buy in. Most people use PCs, but Apple has the mindshare.

Wesley Morris

#81. 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

#82. They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises.

Mary Wesley

#83. The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

John Wesley

#84. Just when I think you might have a soul, you say shit like that.

Kody Keplinger

#85. 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

#86. I'm addicted to silence and privacy; I wallow in it.

Valerie Wilson Wesley

#87. When we started after Osama bin Laden, we really decided to go after the Taliban. And we seemed to be content to kick the Taliban out of Kandahar. And then we let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora.

Wesley Clark

#88. I definitely have a kind of Stockholm Syndrome for superhero movies because it's very clear that's the era we're in. It's like Christianity in the Middle Ages.

Wesley Morris

#89. 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

#90. Unimaginative people are spared quite a lot. They're often much happier, because they don't go through all the variety of conceptions of the person they love.

Mary Wesley

#91. 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

#92. God grant that I may never live to be useless!

John Wesley

#93. I've always loved who I loved, and it never mattered to me where they were from. That's how it should be: wherever your heart tells you to go, you go.

Rutina Wesley

#94. This whole alien-in-his-body was starting to sound better and better. First, he got to hang out with a hot girl, and now he was going to be James Bond.

Wesley Chu

#95. I would have been a Republican if Karl Rove had returned my phone calls.

Wesley Clark

#96. I was very short when I was little, so I probably had - and there may be a residue of it now - that Napoleon complex. Wanting to be as big and as powerful as the big guys.

Wesley Snipes

#97. I grew up with a wide range of music.

Rutina Wesley

#98. I was being chase by half a dozen guys at the time. Didn't have time to stop and admire the craftsmanship. There was a Ming vase there?
I believe so. You smashed it over someone's head, picked up a shard, and stabbed another in the chest with it.
Ah, good times.

Wesley Chu

#99. You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

John Wesley

#100. I always tell other young actors to go to school, or at least watch movies to learn as much as you can.

Rutina Wesley

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