Quotes from John Wesley

I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard.

No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place.

In the evening I went very unwillingly to a society in Aldersgate Street, where one was reading Luther's preface to the Epistle to the Romans. About a quarter before nine, while he was describing the change which God works in the heart through faith in Christ, I felt my heart strangely warmed. I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone, for salvation; and an assurance was given me that He had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

I pity those who can find no good at church. But how should they if prejudice come between, an effectual bar to the grace of God?

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may.

True humility is a kind of self-annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues.

It is hardily credible of how great consequences before God the smallest things are; and what great inconveniences some times follow those which appear to be light faults.

It was a common saying among the Christians in the primitive Church, "The soul and the body make a man; the spirit and discipline make a Christian;" implying, that none could be real Christians, without the help of Christian discipline. But if this be so, is it any wonder that we find so few Christians; for where is Christian discipline

Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.

Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.

Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.

none can trust in the merits of Christ, till he has utterly renounced his own.