Quotes from John Wesley
My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.
- John Wesley
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
I look upon the whole world as my parish.
- John Wesley
My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
- John Wesley
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
- John Wesley
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
- John Wesley
Is it not hard that even those who are with us should be against us - that a man's enemies, in some degree, should be those of the same household of faith? Yet so it is.
- John Wesley
As for reputation, though it be a glorious instrument of advancing our Master's service, yet there is a better than that: a clean heart, a single eye, and a soul full of God. A fair exchange if, by the loss of reputation, we can purchase the lowest degree of purity of heart.
- John Wesley
I build on Christ, the rock of ages; on his sure mercies described in his word, and on his promises, all which I know are yea and amen.
- John Wesley
In a storm, I think, 'What if the gospel be not true? Then thou art, of all men, most foolish. For what has thou given up thy goods, thy ease, thy friends, thy reputation, thy country, thy life?'
- John Wesley
Passion and prejudice govern the world, only under the name of reason.
- John Wesley
I went to America to convert the Indians; but oh! who shall convert me?
- John Wesley