One of England’s greatest spiritual leaders, John Wesley was a cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to present. Empowering John Wesley quotes on the resurrection, discipline, salvation, grace, children, communion, and methodism will broaden your horizon.
If you’re searching for inspiring quotes from famous Christians that perfectly capture what you’d like to say or just want to feel inspired yourself, browse through an amazing collection of quotes from Jonathan Edwards, powerful Mary MacKillop quotes and famous Mother Teresa quotes.
Most Famous John Wesley Quotes
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. John Wesley
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace. John Wesley
The best thing of all is God is with us. John Wesley
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
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
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn. John wesley
I reflected much on that vain desire, which had pursued me for so many years, of being in solitude in order to be a Christian. I have now, thought I, solitude enough; but am I therefore the nearer being a Christian? Not if Jesus Christ be the model of Christianity. John Wesley
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money all above what buys necessities for your families to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose? 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
Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth. John Wesley
I cannot think that when God sent us into the world, he had irreversibly decreed that we should be perpetually miserable in it. If our taking up the Cross imply our bidding adieu to all joy and satisfaction, how is it reconcilable with what Solomon expressly affirms of religion, that her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace? John Wesley
We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others. John Wesley
I asked long ago, What must I do to be saved? The Scripture answered, Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love. I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity. John Wesley
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. 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
Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can. John Wesley
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. John Wesley
Catch on fire and others will love to come watch you burn. John Wesley
God does nothing except in response to believing prayer. John Wesley
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. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences. 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
It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people. John Wesley
I went to America to convert the Indians, but, oh, who shall convert me? Who, what, is he that will deliver me from this evil heart of unbelief? John Wesley
God grant that I may never live to be useless! John Wesley
I look upon the whole world as my parish. John Wesley
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God’s creational intentions. John Wesley
I have seen as far as it can be seen many persons changed in a moment from the spirit of horror, fear, and despair to the spirit of hope, joy, peace; and from sinful desires, till then reigning over them, to a pure desire of doing the will of God. John Wesley
Thanksgiving is inseparable from true prayer; it is almost essentially connected with it. One who always prays is ever giving praise, whether in ease or pain, both for prosperity and for the greatest adversity. He blesses God for all things, looks on them as coming from Him, and receives them for His sake not choosing nor refusing, liking or disliking,anything, but only as it is agreeable or disagreeable to His perfect will. 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
Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell. John Wesley
Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn. John Wesley
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
Prayer is where the action is. John Wesley
By salvation I mean not barely according to the vulgar notion deliverance from hell or going to heaven but a present deliverance from sin a restoration of the soul to its primitive health its original purity a recovery of the divine nature the renewal of our souls after the image of God in righteousness and true holiness in justice mercy and truth. John Wesley
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
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
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
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself? John Wesley
I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me. John Wesley
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
I saw that giving even all my life to God supposing it possible to do this and go no further would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him. John Wesley
Get on fire for God and men will come and see you burn. John Wesley
O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations! John Wesley
A man of one book, a student of many. 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
One great reason why the rich in general have so little sympathy for the poor is because they so seldom visit them. Hence it is that one part of the world does not know what the other suffers. Many of them do not know, because they do not care to know: they keep out of the way of knowing it and then plead their voluntary ignorance as an excuse for their hardness of heart. John Wesley
I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have forgotten the work for which I was born and have set up my rest in this world. John Wesley
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
I have not that joy in the Holy Ghost, no settled, lasting joy; nor have I such a peace as excludes the possibility either of fear or doubt. John Wesley
Our main doctrines, which include all the rest, are three That of repentance, of faith, and of holiness. The first of these we account, as it were, the porch of religion; the next, the door; the third, religion itself. John Wesley
I know that I had not faith, unless the faith of a devil, the faith of Judas, that speculative, notional, airy shadow, which lives in the head, not in the heart. But what is this to the living, justifying faith, the faith that cleanses from sin? John Wesley
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
O never give me over to my own heart’s desires, nor let me follow my own imaginations! John Wesley
How is it more for the glory of God to save man irresistibly, than to save him as a free agent, by such grace as he may either concur or resist? John Wesley
Think and let think. John Wesley
The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in all the world. John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment. John Wesley
No man that ever lived, not John Calvin himself, ever asserted either original sin, or justification by faith, in more strong, more clear and express terms, than Arminius has done. John Wesley
Once in seven years I burn all my sermons; for it is a shame if I cannot write better sermons now than I did seven years ago. John Wesley
I have no objection to instruments of music in our worship, provided they are neither seen nor heard. John Wesley
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England. John Wesley
No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place. John Wesley
Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry. John Wesley
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
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
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? John Wesley
At all times it is of use to have a friend to whom you can pour your heart without any disguise or reserve. John Wesley
True humility is a kind of self annihilation; and this is the centre of all virtues. John Wesley
All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses. John Wesley
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. John Wesley
The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. John Wesley
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. John Wesley
Be not so positive; especially with regard to things which are neither easy nor necessary to be determined. John Wesley
Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment. John Wesley
Let your words be the genuine picture of your heart. John Wesley
Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone. John Wesley
Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn. John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature. John Wesley
God grant that I may never live to be useless! John Wesley
Let me daily grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. John Wesley
Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge. John Wesley
Get on fire for God, and people will come to watch you burn! John Wesley
I observed, Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment. It is not only ‘the first and great command, but all the commandments in one. John Wesley
May we all thus experience what it is to be not almost only, but altogether Christians! Being justified freely by his grace, through the redemption that is in Jesus, knowing we have peace with God through Jesus Christ, rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, and having the love of God shed abroad in our hearts by the l holy Ghost given unto us! John Wesley
Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love. John Wesley
I had a sort of faith during my early life. But devils also have a sort of faith. Still, neither they nor I received the faith of the covenant of promise. Even the apostles had a sort of faith when they were first with Jesus in Cana. Then and there, they believed on him in a way. But they did not yet have the faith which overcomes the world. John Wesley
Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. John Wesley
Is it sinless? It is not worth while tocontend for a term It is salvation from sin. John Wesley
Earn all you can, give all you can, save all you can. John Wesley
But this doctrine has been much abused. So has that of justification by faith. But that is no reason for giving up either this or any other scriptural doctrine. When you wash your child, as one speaks, throw away the water; but do not throw away the child. John Wesley
Do not impute to money the faults of human nature. John Wesley
Those without enough love experience rage, but love drives rage away. John Wesley
Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money all above what buys necessities for your families to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? John Wesley
Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can. John Wesley
Not, how much of my money will I give to God, but, how much of God’s money will I keep for myself? John Wesley
