John Wesley Quotes

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

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!

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world.

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

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

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.

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

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.