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• Above all sing spiritually. Have an eye to God in every word you sing. Aim at pleasing him more than yourself, or any other creature. In order to do this attend strictly to the sense of what you sing, and see that your heart is not carried away with the sound, but offered to God continually; so shall your singing be such as the Lord will approve here, and reward you when he comes in the clouds of heaven.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Clouds

  John Wesley, John Emory (1853). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.609

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• Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

  John Wesley

  Men, Worms, Shows

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• Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.

  John Wesley

  World, Christ

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• 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

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• Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

  John Wesley

  Fire, People, Miles

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• 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

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• 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.

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• My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

  John Wesley

  All Things, Bigots

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.230

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• The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

  John Wesley

  People, Church

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• Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Hands, Way

  John Wesley (1937). “John Wesley, Christian Citizen: Selections from His Social Teaching”

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• My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

  John Wesley

  Real, Holiness, Life Is

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• Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Interesting, Done

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• The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

  John Wesley

  Church, Christianity, Solitary

  John Wesley (2008). “The Heart of John Wesley's Journal”, p.11, Hendrickson Publishers

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• 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

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• For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?

  John Wesley

  Heart, Long, Rooms

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.390

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• Untold millions are still untold.

  John Wesley

  Missionary, Motto, Missions

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• Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame, if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago.

  John Wesley

  Writing, Years, Shame

  'Journal' 1 September 1778

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• Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

  John Wesley

  Godly, Christian Inspirational, Degrees

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.448

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• 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

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• If I had 300 men who feared nothing but God, hated nothing but sin, and were determined to know nothing among men but Jesus Christ and Him crucified, I would set the world on fire.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Men, Fire

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• God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Believe, Doe

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• The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.

  John Wesley

  Goal, Priorities, Firsts

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• Sing lustily and with a good courage. Beware of singing as if you were half dead, or half asleep; but lift up your voice with strength.

  John Wesley

  Voice, Singing, Half

  John Wesley, John Emory (1853). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley”, p.609

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• It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

  John Wesley

  Justify, Glorify, Sanctify

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.42

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• 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

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