Charles Wesley Quotes

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• Amazing Love! how can it be,
  That Thou, my God, shouldst die for me?

  Charles Wesley

  Amazing Love, Dies

  Charles Wesley (1989). “Charles Wesley : A Reader: A Reader”, p.103, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Faith, mighty faith, the promise sees, And looks to God alone; Laughs at impossibilities, And cries it shall be done.

  Charles Wesley

  Faith, Religious, Laughing

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.352, Ravenio Books

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• The Bible must be the invention either of good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. However, it was not written by good men, because good men would not tell lies by saying 'Thus saith the Lord;' it was not written by bad men because they would not write about doing good duty, while condemning sin, and themselves to hell; thus, it must be written by divine inspiration

  Charles Wesley

  Lying, Inspiration, Angel

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• O for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace!

  Charles Wesley

  Kings, Grace, Triumph

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.876, Ravenio Books

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• Be friends of everyone. Be enemies of no-one

  Charles Wesley

  Enemy

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• The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence is the sum of a Christian man.

  Charles Wesley

  Christian, Men, Evil

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• To God your every Want In instant Prayer display, Pray always; Pray, and never faint; Pray, without ceasing, Pray.

  Charles Wesley

  Prayer, Want, Praying

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.272, Ravenio Books

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• Come, thou long expected Jesus, born to set thy people free; from our fears and sins release us; let us find our rest in thee. Israel's strength and consolation, hope of all the earth thou art, dear desire of every nation, joy of every longing heart.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Art, Israel

  Charles Wesley, Frederic M. BIRD (1867). “Charles Wesley seen in his finer and less familiar poems. [A collection of his poems edited by F. M. Bird.]”, p.59

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• How few young men realize that their success in life depends more upon what they are than upon what they know. It is self-esteem that has brought the race this far.

  Charles Wesley

  Self Esteem, Men, Race

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• Keep us little and unknown, prized and loved by God alone.

  Charles Wesley

  Littles

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.469, Ravenio Books

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• He left His Father's throne above, (So free, so infinite His grace!) Emptied Himself of all but love, And bled for Adam's helpless race.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Father, Race

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.219, Ravenio Books

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• Oh for a thousand tongues to sing my great Redeemer's praise, the glories of my God and King, the triumphs of his grace! My gracious Master and my God, assist me to proclaim, to spread through all the earth abroad the honors of thy name. Jesus! the name that charms our fears, that bids our sorrows cease; 'tis music in the sinner's ears, 'tis life, and health, and peace.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, Peace, Kings

  Charles Wesley, J. Alan Kay (1957). “Fifty Hymns by Charles Wesley”

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• Not from his head was woman took,
  As made her husband to o'erlook;
  Not from his feet, as one designed
  The footstool of the stronger kind;
  But fashioned for himself, a bride;
  An equal, taken from his side.

  Charles Wesley

  Husband, Women, Taken

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• Peace on earth, and mercy mild
  God and sinners reconciled.

  Charles Wesley

  Earth, Christian Christmas, Mercy

  Hymns and Sacred Poems "Hymn for Christmas-Day" (1739). GeorgeWhitefield, in A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (1753), altered Wesley's first two lines to "Hark! The Herald Angels sing / Glory to the new-born King!"

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• God buries His workmen but carries on His work.

  Charles Wesley

  Death, Dying, Workmen

  Thomas JACKSON (Wesleyan Minister.), Charles Wesley (1848). “Memoirs of the Rev. Charles Wesley ... Being an abridgement of his Life in two volumes, octavo”, p.469

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• Jesus, Thou art all compassion, pure unbounded love Thou art; Visit us with Thy salvation, enter every trembling heart.

  Charles Wesley

  Sympathy, Jesus, Art

  1747 'Love Divine', collected in Hymns for those that Seek...Redemption.

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• Jesus weeps and loves me still.

  Charles Wesley

  Jesus, And Love, Mercy

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.190, Ravenio Books

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• Jesu, lover of my soul, Let me to thy bosom fly, While the nearer waters roll, While the tempest still is high; Hide me,O my Saviour, hide, Till the storm of life is past; Safe into the haven guide, O receive my soul at last.

  Charles Wesley

  Past, Water, Soul

  1740 'In Temptation', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• And all things as they change proclaim
  The Lord eternally the same.

  Charles Wesley

  Lord, All Things

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.237, Ravenio Books

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• Forth in thy name,O Lord, I go, My daily labour to pursue. Thee, only thee, resolved to know, In all I think or speak or do.

  Charles Wesley

  Thinking, Names, Speak

  1749 'Forth in Thy Name', collected in Hymns and Sacred Poems.

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• Our children will grow up confused, not respecting the Bible or anything else that is sacred.

  Charles Wesley

  Children, Growing Up, Confused

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• Come to earth to taste our sadness, he whose glories knew no end;
  by his life he brings us gladness, our Redeemer, Shepherd, Friend.
  Leaving riches without number, born within a cattle stall;
  this the everlasting wonder, Christ was born the Lord of all.

  Charles Wesley

  Christmas, Meaningful, Sadness

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• A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.

  Charles Wesley

  Sky, Soul, Dying

  Charles Wesley (1989). “Charles Wesley : A Reader: A Reader”, p.449, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Expand Thy wings, celestial Dove, brood o'er our nature's night; on our disordered spirits move, and let there now be light.

  Charles Wesley

  Moving, Night, Light

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.964, Ravenio Books

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• Arise, my soul, arise; shake off thy guilty fears; The bleeding sacrifice in my behalf appears:
  Before the throne my surety stands, Before the throne my surety stands, my name is written on His hands.

  Charles Wesley

  Sacrifice, Hands, Names

  Charles Wesley (2014). “Wesley's Hymns and the Methodist Sunday-School Hymn-Book”, p.1034, Ravenio Books

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