John Wesley Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.

  John Wesley

  Religion, Generations, Next

• I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.

  John Wesley

  Dream, Moving, Community

• Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

  John Wesley

  Love, Book, Reading

  In R. Southey 'Life of Wesley' (1820) ch. 16

• My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

  John Wesley

  Fire, Supernatural Elements, People

• Orthodoxy, or right opinion, is, at best, a very slender part of religion. Though right tempers cannot subsist without right opinions, yet right opinions may subsist without right tempers. There may be a right opinion of God without either love or one right temper toward Him. Satan is a proof of this.

  John Wesley

  Religion, May, Orthodoxy

• Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Law, Grace, Religion

• Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.

  John Wesley

  Character, Religion, Vices

• It is no marvel that the devil does not love field preaching! Neither do I; I love a commodious room, a soft cushion, a handsome pulpit. But where is my zeal if I do not trample all these underfoot in order to save one more soul?

  John Wesley

  Order, Soul, Religion

  John Wesley (1871). “Wesley his own biographer, being illustrations of his character, labours, and achievements, from his own journals and letters [ed.] with an intr. by G.S. Rowe”, p.158

• 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”

• 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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