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• We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

  John Wesley

  Use, Littles, Common

  Of preaching to 'plain people', in R. Southey 'Life of Wesley' (1820) ch. 16

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• Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

  John Wesley

  Next, Scripture, Sin

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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• In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

  John Wesley

  Book, Different, Honest

  John Wesley, John Emory (1758). “Journals”, p.366

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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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• They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.

  John Wesley

  Father, Heart, Sight

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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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• Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Hate, Life Changing

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• A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

  John Wesley

  Attention, Mark, Constant

  John Wesley (1872). “Works: With the Last Corrections of the Author”, p.440

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• The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

  John Wesley

  Dog, Pain, Revenge

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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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• Consider that all these torments of body and soul are without intermission. Be their suffering ever so extreme, be their pain ever so intense, there is no possibility of their fainting away, no, not for one moment ... They are all eye, all ear, all sense. Every instant of their duration it may be said of their whole frame that they are 'Trembling alive all o'er, and smart and agonize at every pore.' And of this duration there is no end ... Neither the pain of the body nor of soul is any nearer an end than it was millions of ages ago.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Smart, Eye

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• I could scarcely reconcile myself at first to this strange way of preaching in the fields, of which Whitfield set me an example on Sunday; having been all my life (till very lately) so tenacious of every point relating to decency and order, that I should have thought the saving of souls almost a sin, if it had not been done in a church.

  John Wesley

  Life, Sunday, Order

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• Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

  John Wesley

  Book

  John Wesley (1825). “The Life of the Rev. John Wesley ... to which is Prefixed Some Account of His Ancestors and Relations; with the Life of the Rev. Charles Wesley, Etc”, p.335

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• If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Suffering, Affliction

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

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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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• The glories and the beauties of form, color and sound unite in the Grand Canyon - forms unrivaled even by the mountains, colors that vie with sunsets, and sounds that span the diapason from tempest to tinkling raindrop; from cataract to bubbling fountain.

  John Wesley

  Sunset, Color, Mountain

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• The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Loss, Grace

  John Wesley (1855). “A plain account of Christian perfection ... Eighteenth edition”, p.91

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• 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 the world.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Eye, Men

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

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• When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

  John Wesley

  Crowns, Wreaths, Poor

  John Wesley (1797). “A Collection of Hymns, for the use of the people called Methodists ... A new edition”, p.4

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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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• They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

  John Wesley

  Men, Six, Seven

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• I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.

  John Wesley

  Blessed, Believe, Men

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The doctrine of original sin, and tracts on various subjects of polemical divinity”, p.532

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• I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

  John Wesley

  Book, Hands, Generosity

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.254

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• The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

  John Wesley

  Giving Up, Belief, Witchcraft

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• As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out of reach of ordinary men.

  John Wesley

  Book, Dark, Simple

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