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• Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture; yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.

  John Wesley

  Taken, Trying, Littles

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• A sour religion is the devil's religion.

  John Wesley

  Devil, Sour, Theologian

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• The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

  John Wesley

  Men, Heaven, Fasting

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• Beware you are not a fiery, persecuting enthusiast. Do not imagine that God has called you (just contrary to the spirit of Him you style your Master) to destroy men’s lives, and not to save them. Never dream of forcing men into the ways of God. Think yourself, and let think. Use no constraint in matters of religion. Even those who are farthest out of the way never compel to come in by any other means than reason, truth, and love.

  John Wesley

  Dream, Mean, Men

  John Wesley (1829). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.417

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• He who governed the world before I was born shall take care of it likewise when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

  John Wesley

  World, Care, Moments

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.644

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• The case is this: God offers you one of the greatest mercies on this side of heaven and commands you to accept it. Why do you not accept this mercy in obedience to His command.... God offers you a pardon for all your sins.

  John Wesley

  Life, Heaven, Sides

  John Wesley (2011). “The Essential Works of John Wesley”, p.668, Barbour Publishing

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• 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

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• 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”

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• The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this; for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.

  John Wesley

  Opposites, Sick, Naked

  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.261

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• We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.

  John Wesley

  Change For The Better, Instruction, Wiser

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.180

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• God does nothing but by prayer, and everything with it.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Doe, Inspirational Prayer

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• 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

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• My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

  John Wesley

  Mind, Talent, Speak

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• 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

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• This Book had to be written by one of three people: good men, bad men or God. It couldn't have been written by good men because they said it was inspired by the revelation of God. Good men don't lie and deceive. It couldn't have been written by bad men because bad men would not write something that would condemn themselves. It leaves only one conclusion. It was given by divine inspiration of God.

  John Wesley

  Bible, Lying, Book

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• Preach faith till you have it; and then, because you have it, you will preach faith.

  John Wesley

  John Wesley (2008). “The Heart of John Wesley's Journal”, p.59, Hendrickson Publishers

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• 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

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• The best of it all is, God is with us.

  John Wesley

  God, God Is With Us

  "The Living Wesley". Book by James Harrison Rigg, 1891.

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• Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth

  John Wesley

  Mistake, Book, May

  John Wesley, John Emory (1758). “Journals”, p.459

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• It is the Spirit that sheds the love of God abroad in their hearts, and the love of all mankind; thereby purifying their hearts from the love of the world, from the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, and the pride of life. It is by Him they are delivered from anger and pride, from all vile and inordinate affections.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Eye, Pride

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.108

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• 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

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• Do not any longer contend for mastery, for power, money, or praise. Be content to be a private, insignificant person, known and loved by God and me....of what importance is your character to mankind, if you was buried just now. Or if you had never lived, what loss would it be to the cause of God.

  John Wesley

  Character, Loss, Causes

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• Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things of God.

  John Wesley

  Spiritual, Men, Divine

  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.6

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• I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

  John Wesley

  Art, College, Clue

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• My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

  John Wesley

  Mom, Mother, Guiding Principles

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