John Wesley Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• You have one business on earth – to save souls.

  John Wesley

  Soul, Missionary, Earth

  John Wesley (1986). “The Bicentennial edition of the works: Sermons III”

• 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

• You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. And go not only to those that need you, but to those that need you most. It is not your business to preach so many times, and to take care of this or that society; but to save as many souls as you can; to bring as many sinners as you possibly can to repentance.

  John Wesley

  Soul, Care, Needs

  John Wesley, John Emory (1853). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

• The Bible must be the invention of either good men or angels, bad men or devils, or of God. It could not be the invention of good men or angels, for they neither would or could make a book, and tell lies all the time they were writing it, saying, 'Thus saith the Lord,' when it was their own invention. It could not be the invention of bad men or devils, for they would not make a book which commands all duty, forbids all sin, and condemns their souls to hell for all eternity. Therefore, I draw this conclusion, that the Bible must be given by divine inspiration.

  John Wesley

  Lying, Book, Inspiration

  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.554

• By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth.

  John Wesley

  Recovery, Mean, Justice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.219

• Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.

  John Wesley

  Soul, Your Soul

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.146

• You have nothing to do but to save souls; therefore spend and be spent in this work.

  John Wesley

  Soul, Saving Souls

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.219

• 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

• 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

• In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is continual prayer.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Soul, Desire

  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

• 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

• 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

• In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Son, Soul

  John Wesley (2011). “Renew My Heart”, p.42, Barbour Publishing

• It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Humility, Exercise

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: A plain account of Christian perfection. The appeals to men of reason and religion. Principles of the Methodists, &c”, p.62

• The bottom of the soul may be in repose, even while we are in many outward troubles; just as the bottom of the sea is calm, while the surface is strongly agitated.

  John Wesley

  Sea, Soul, May

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

• 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

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