John Wesley Quotes About Grace

Quotes about: Grace

• 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

• 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”

• Before I can preach love, mercy, and grace, I must preach sin, Law, and judgment. Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Law, Grace

• Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Law, Grace, Religion

• 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

• One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Grace, Bears

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

• 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

• 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

• All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Grace, Degrees

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin