John Wesley Quotes

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

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.

Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.

Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

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

Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

Oh Lord, let me not live to be useless.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

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

Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

The best of all is God with us

For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

Untold millions are still untold.

All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

I look upon all the world as my parish.

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.

God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.

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

There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.

I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.

God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.

In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.

All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.

Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

A sour religion is the devil's religion.

Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

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

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

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

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

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.

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.

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.

Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.