John Wesley

Quotes from John Wesley (1703-1791), English cleric, evangelist, founder of Methodism.
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Away with thy fears! Thou art not called to fear, but to the “spirit of love and of a sound mind.”

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O Lamb of God, was ever pain, was ever love like thine? Look steadily upon him, till he looks on thee, and breaks thy hard heart.

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The only instrument of salvation is faith; that is, a sure trust and confidence that God both hath and will forgive our sins, that he hath accepted us again into His favor, for the merits of Christ's death and passion.

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O come quickly! Believe in the Lord Jesus; and thou, even thou, art reconciled to God.

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Take up your cross daily: Regard no pain, if it lies in your way to him.

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Press on, in the peace and joy of faith, to the renewal of thy whole soul in the image of Him that created thee!

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Let nothing satisfy thee but the power of godliness, a religion that is spirit and life; thy dwelling in God and God in thee.

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What an unspeakable blessing it is to be the peculiar care of Him that has all power in heaven and earth!

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We follow no men any farther than they are followers of Christ.

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In Christ! Let me entreat every serious person once more to fix his attention here.

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Weep with them that weep. If you can do no more, at least mix your tears with theirs; and give them healing words, such as may calm their minds, and mitigate their sorrows.

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Men may differ from us in their opinions, as well as their expressions, and nevertheless be partakers with us of the same precious faith.

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This, then,— to increase our faith, —is one gracious end of God's permitting those manifold temptations.

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The Lord shall give thee the light of His grace here, and the light of His glory when thou receivest the crown that fadeth not away.

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What can be too hard for Him who hath “all power in heaven and in earth?”

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In whatever sufferings or temptations we are, our great Physician never departs from us. He is about our bed, and about our path. He observes every symptom of our distress, that it may not rise above our strength. And He cannot be mistaken concerning us.

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This is the great reason why the providence of God has so mingled you together with other men, that whatever grace you have received of God may through you be communicated to others; that every holy temper, and word, and work of yours, may have an influence on them also.

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The best guide of the blind, the surest light of them that are in darkness, the most perfect instructor of the foolish, is faith.

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Are the consolations of God small with His children, when all earthly comforts fail? Not so. But when sufferings most abound, the consolations of his Spirit do much more abound.

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Till we are delivered from trusting in anything that we do, we cannot throughly trust in what He has done and suffered.