John Wesley Quotes

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

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.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

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

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.

[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.

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.

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

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Read the most useful books, and that regularly and constantly.

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

[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.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

If doing a good act in public will excite others to do more good, then 'Let your light shine to all.' Miss no opportunity to do good.

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.

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

We should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.

Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.

Riches naturally beget pride, love of the world, and every temper that is destructive of Christianity.

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

Preach 90% Law and 10% grace.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

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

The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker , on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

Thou hidden love of God, whose height, Whose depth unfathomed no man knows, I see from far thy beauteous light, Only I sigh for thy repose.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

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

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

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

When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.

The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

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.

Light yourself on fire with passion and people will come from miles to watch you burn.