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• I can by no means approve the scurrility and contempt with which the Romanists have often been treated. I dare not rail at, or despise, any man: much less those who profess to believe in the same Master. But I pity them much; having the same assurance, that Jesus is the Christ, and that no Romanist can expect to be saved, according to the terms of his covenant.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Believe, Mean

  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.151

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• 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”

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• Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

  John Wesley

  Animal, Men, Order

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• When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

  John Wesley

  Passion, Fire, People

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• Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.

  John Wesley

  Phrases, Holiness, Christ

  John Wesley (1831). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.593

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• I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation.

  John Wesley

  Heart, Christ, Salvation

  1738 Journal entry, 24 May.

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• [Christ] does not give [men] light but from moment to moment; the instant He withdraws, all is darkness.... God does not give them a stock of holiness.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Men, Light

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• Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Hands, Christian Inspirational

  John Wesley (1830). “The works of the rev. John Wesley”, p.383

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• [When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

  John Wesley

  Generosity, Thieves, May

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• At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

  John Wesley

  Afternoon, Four, Salvation

  John Wesley (1837). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.”, p.174

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• I resolved to dedicate all my life to God, all my thoughts, and words, and actions; being thoroughly convinced, there was no medium; but that every part of my life (not some only) must either be a sacrifice to God, or myself, that is, in effect, to the devil. Can any serious person doubt of this, or find a medium between serving God and serving the devil?

  John Wesley

  Sacrifice, Serious Person, Doubt

  John Wesley (1830). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Christian perfection”, p.366

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• Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Ends

  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.337

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• 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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• Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

  John Wesley

  Earthquakes, Causes, Sin

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• Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, Thinking, Suffering

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

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• May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love; the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.

  John Wesley

  Christian, World, Charity

  John Wesley, Bp. John Emory, Thomas Jackson (1831). “The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Sermons”, p.289

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• I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

  John Wesley

  Prayer, America, Mind

  John Wesley (1835). “The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A. M.”, p.476

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• All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.

  John Wesley

  Mean, Grace, Degrees

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• Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?

  John Wesley

  Children, Fire, Lakes

  John Wesley (1827). “Sermons on Several Occasions”, p.370

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• For many ages it has been allowed by sensible men, Nihil est in intellectu quod non fuit prius in sensu: That is, There is nothing in the understanding which was not first perceived by some of the senses. All the knowledge which we naturally have is originally derived from our senses. And therefore those who want any sense cannot have the least knowledge or idea of the objects of that sense; as they that never had sight have not the least knowledge or conception of light or colours.

  John Wesley

  Men, Light, Sight

  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.406

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• They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.

  John Wesley

  Father, Heart, Sight

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• And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

  John Wesley

  Running, Race, Way

  John Wesley (2012). “The Works of the REV. John Wesley: With the Last Corrections of the Author, Volume 12...”, p.504

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• Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.

  John Wesley

  Dark, Men, Age

  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.585

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• To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.

  John Wesley

  Jesus, Son, Self

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• 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

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