John Wesley Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

• Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Heaven, Desire

  John Wesley (1960). “The Letters of the Rev. John Wesley ...”

• Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

  John Wesley

  Money, Giving, Methodists

  "The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M". Book edited by John Emory, Volume I, p. 446. Sermon 50: "The Use of Money", 1840.

• Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

  John Wesley

  Men, Thinking, Giving

  John Wesley (1826). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first numbers of his journal, particular of his death, review of his character, &c”, p.421

• Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?

  John Wesley

  Giving, Naked, Purpose

• 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”

• Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake- not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Pain, Adversity

  John Wesley (2011). “Renew My Heart”, p.108, Barbour Publishing

• I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!

  John Wesley

  Bible, Book, Land

  John Wesley (1980). “John Wesley”, p.89, Oxford University Press

• 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!

  John Wesley

  Christian, Men, Giving

• 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

• I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Giving, Judging

  "The Law of Rewards: Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose". Book by Randy C. Alcorn, p. 18, 2003.

• 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

• Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself?

  John Wesley

  Giving, Missionary, Missions

• Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

  John Wesley

  Hate, Heart, Men

• A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

  John Wesley

  Giving, Bears, Spirit

  John Wesley (1853). “Explanatory Notes Upon the New Testament”, p.613

• On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have. In the greatest temptations, a single look to Christ, and the barely pronouncing his name, suffices to overcome the wicked one, so it be done with confidence and calmness of spirit.

  John Wesley

  Pain, Prayer, Light

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

• Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute; laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.

  John Wesley

  Life, Cutting, Hunting

• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

• 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

• In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!

  John Wesley

  Children, Pain, Husband

• 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

• O, Begin! Fix some part of every day for private exercises... Whether you like it or no, read and pray daily. It is for your life; there is no other way; else you will be a trifler all your days... Do justice to your own soul; give it time and means to grow. Do not starve yourself any longer.

  John Wesley

  Monday, Morning, Mean

• Purge me from every sinful blot;
  My idols all be cast aside:
  Cleanse me from every evil thought,
  From all the filth of self and pride.
  
  The hatred of the carnal mind
  Out of my flesh at once remove:
  Give me a tender heart, resigned,
  And pure, and full of faith and love.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.21

• [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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