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• 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

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• God will do nothing but in answer to prayer.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Answers, Gods Will

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• Suffer all, and conquer all.

  John Wesley

  Suffering, Conquer

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.424

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• God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.

  John Wesley

  Greatness, Done, Communicate

  John Wesley (1872). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author”, p.440

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• Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Degrees, Born

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.259

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• About three in the morning as we were continuing instant in prayer, the power of God came mightily upon us, insomuch that many cried out for exceeding joy, and many fell to the ground. As soon as we recovered a little from the awe and amazement at the presence of His Majesty, we broke out with one voice, 'We praise Thee, O God, we acknowledge Thee to be the Lord.'

  John Wesley

  Morning, Prayer, Voice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works...”, p.117

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• Lord, is it not Thy word, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God? Thou givest liberally, and upbraidest not. Thou hast said, if any be willing to do Thy will, he shall know. I am willing to do, let me know Thy will.

  John Wesley

  Men, Lord, Said

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.3

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• Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.

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  Food, Wine, Cooking

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: The twelfth, thirteenth, fourteenth, fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and part of the eighteenth, numbers of his journal”, p.332

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• 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

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• But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

  John Wesley

  Medicine, Disease, Physicians

  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.308

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• with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Use, Kind

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• Gay and costly apparel directly tends to create and influence lust.... The fact is plain and undeniable, it has the effect both on the wearer and beholder. You kindle a flame, which, at the same time consumes both yourself and your admirers.

  John Wesley

  Gay, Flames, Lust

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• In the hands of [God's] children, it is food for the hungry, drink for the thirsty, raiment for the naked. it gives to the traveler and the stranger where to lay his head. By it we may supply the place of a husband to the widow, and of a father to the fatherless. We may be a defense for the oppressed, a means of health to the sick, of ease to them that are in pain. It may be as eyes to the blind, as feet to the lame: yea, a lifter up from the gates of death!

  John Wesley

  Children, Pain, Husband

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• Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

  John Wesley

  Law, Grace, Religion

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• Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

  John Wesley

  Wisdom, Haste, Hurrying

  Letter to a member of the Society. 10 December 1777, in 'Select Letters' (1837)

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• This earthly body is slow and heavy in all its motions, listless and soon tired with action. But our heavenly bodies shall be as fire; as active and as nimble as our thoughts are.

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  Tired, Fire, Heaven

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.512

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• All that a Christian does, even in eating and sleeping, is prayer, when it is done in simplicity, according to the order of God, without either adding to or diminishing from it by his own choice.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Prayer, Sleep

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.526

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• Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

  John Wesley

  God, Next, Cleanliness

  Sermons on Several Occasions Sermon 88 (1788). The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs notes, "Next in this proverb means 'immediately following,' as in serial order." The ODP refers to a passage in Francis Bacon, Advancement of Learning (1605), reading, "Cleannesse of bodie was euer esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."

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• Justifying faith implies, not only a divine evidence or conviction that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself, but a sure trust and confidence that Christ died for my sins, that He loved me and gave Himself for me.

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  Love, World, Sin

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.50

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• I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.

  John Wesley

  Strong, Prayer, Believe

  John Wesley “John Wesley's The Book of Common Prayer”, Lulu.com

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• As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

  John Wesley

  Fashion, Dresses, Matter

  "A Dictionary of Thoughts: Being a Cyclopedia of Laconic Quotations from the Best Authors of the World, both Ancient and Modern". Book by Tyron Edwards, p. 127, 1908.

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• Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason.

  John Wesley

  Passion, Names, Prejudice

  John Wesley (1827). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley: Tracts and letters on various subjects”, p.400

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• As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

  John Wesley

  Earth, Holy

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.46

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• Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Simple, Fire

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• Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Pain, Hands

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous”, p.525

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