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• This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

  John Wesley

  Tired, Fire, Heaven

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.512

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Prayer, Sleep

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

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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

  John Wesley

  Passion, Fire, People

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• I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  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.151

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• I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Prayer, Mean

  John Wesley (1837). “The Journal of the Reverend John Wesley, Sometime Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford”, p.138

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• May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

  John Wesley

  Christian, World, Charity

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.289

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• As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

  John Wesley

  Fashion, Dresses, Matter

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tyron Edwards, p. 127, 1908.

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• Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

  John Wesley

  Phrases, Holiness, Christ

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.593

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

  John Wesley

  Earthquakes, Causes, Sin

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Hands, Christian Inspirational

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.383

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• 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

  Christian, Pain, Hands

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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• I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.

  John Wesley

  Religion, Sin, Christianity

  John Wesley “The Arminian Magazine: Consisting of Extracts and Original Treatises on Universal Redemption”

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• [When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

  John Wesley

  Generosity, Thieves, May

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• [Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Ends

  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.337

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• As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God, working in and with those that believe in him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Children, Believe

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• 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.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Thinking, Suffering

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

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• Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

  John Wesley

  Animal, Men, Order

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• At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

  John Wesley

  Afternoon, Four, Salvation

  John Wesley (1837). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.174

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• God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

  John Wesley

  Inspiration, Heart, Firsts

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.632

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• 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

  Spiritual, Law, Void

  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.313

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• To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Son, Self

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• Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Giving Up, Scary

  John Wesley (1856). “The Life of John Wesley”, p.195

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• Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

  John Wesley

  Dark, Men, Age

  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.585

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