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• 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

  World, Care, Moments

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.644

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Reading, Knowing, People

  Philip Saville Watson, John Wesley, Charles Wesley (1964). “The message of the Wesleys: a reader of instruction and devotion”

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• Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'

  John Wesley

  Long, People, Giving

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.253

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

  John Wesley

  Men, Heaven, Fasting

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

  John Wesley

  Soul, Saving Souls

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.219

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• Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

  John Wesley

  Pride, World, Riches

  John Wesley, John Emory (1835). “The Works of the Late Reverend John Wesley, A.M.: From the Latest London Edition with the Last Corrections of the Author, Comprehending Also Numerous Translations, Notes, and an Original Preface, Etc”, p.441

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• A sour religion is the devil's religion.

  John Wesley

  Devil, Sour, Theologian

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

  John Wesley

  God, God Is With Us

  "The Living Wesley". Book by James Harrison Rigg, 1891.

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• Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.

  John Wesley

  Dream, Mean, Men

  John Wesley (1829). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.417

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• This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Lying, Book

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• The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept it. Why do you not accept this mercy in obedience to His command.... God offers you a pardon for all your sins.

  John Wesley

  Life, Heaven, Sides

  John Wesley (2011). “The Essential Works of John Wesley”, p.668, Barbour Publishing

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

  John Wesley

  Mind, Talent, Speak

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Change For The Better, Instruction, Wiser

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.180

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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

  John Wesley

  Recovery, Mean, Justice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

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• God's command to "pray without ceasing" is founded on the necessity we have of His grace to preserve the life of God in the soul, which can no more subsist one moment without it, than the body can without air.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Air, Grace

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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

  John Wesley

  John Wesley (2008). “The Heart of John Wesley's Journal”, p.59, Hendrickson Publishers

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• I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

  John Wesley

  Art, College, Clue

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• My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

  John Wesley

  Mom, Mother, Guiding Principles

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Sea, Soul, May

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.525

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• It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.108

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• 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

  Christian, Simple, Fire

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• 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

  John Wesley

  Mistake, Book, May

  John Wesley, John Emory (1758). “Journals”, p.459

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