Top 160 John Wesley Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar.”

— John Wesley

52. “All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.”

— John Wesley

53. “Proceed with much prayer, and your way will be made plain.”

— John Wesley

54. “Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we’ll shake England for God.”

— John Wesley

55. “Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.”

— John Wesley

56. “One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour; which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.”

— John Wesley

57. “It is good to renew ourselves, from time to time, by closely examining the state of our souls, as if we had never done it before; for nothing tends more to the full assurance of faith, than to keep ourselves by this means in humility, and the exercise of all good works.”

— John Wesley

58. “In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.”

— John Wesley

59. “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

60. “Suffer all, and conquer all.”

— John Wesley

61. “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

62. “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.”

— John Wesley

63. “The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.”

— John Wesley

64. “I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.”

— John Wesley

65. “I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.”

— John Wesley

66. “My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.”

— John Wesley

67. “I believe in my heart that faith in Jesus Christ can and will lead us beyond an exclusive concern for the well-being of other human beings to the broader concern for the well-being of the birds in our backyards, the fish in our rivers, and every living creature on the face of the earth.”

— John Wesley

68. “Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.”

— John Wesley

69. “Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!”

— John Wesley

70. “When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man, when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!”

— John Wesley

71. “Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.”

— John Wesley

72. “Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”

— John Wesley

73. “The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.”

— John Wesley

74. “Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.”

— John Wesley

75. “The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.”

— John Wesley

76. “Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.”

— John Wesley

77. “My talent is to speak my mind. God won’t object if you bury that talent.”

— John Wesley

78. “I want to know one thing: The way to Heaven. How to land safe on that happy shore.”

— John Wesley

79. “There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.”

— John Wesley

80. “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

81. “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.”

— John Wesley

82. “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

83. “I see the necessity of preaching a full and present salvation from all sin.”

— John Wesley

84. “When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.”

— John Wesley

85. “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

86. “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

87. “Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree...”

— John Wesley

88. “One of the greatest evidences of God’s love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.”

— John Wesley

89. “Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn!”-John Wesley.”

— John Wesley

90. “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.”

— John Wesley

91. “A sour religion is the devil’s religion.”

— John Wesley

92. “Wine, one of the noblest cordials in nature.”

— John Wesley

93. “Do not impute to money the faults of human nature.”

— John Wesley

94. “A man of one book, a student of many.”

— John Wesley

95. “Making an open stand against all the ungodliness and unrighteousness which overspreads our land as a flood is one of the noblest ways of confessing Christ in the face of His enemies.”

— John Wesley

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

— John Wesley

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

— John Wesley

98. “It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.”

— John Wesley

99. “As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.”

— John Wesley

100. “I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!”

— John Wesley