“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!”1
“We should be rigorous in judging ourselves and gracious in judging others.”
“You have one business on earth – to save souls.”
“Vice does not lose its character by becoming fashionable.”
“God grant that I may never live to be useless!”
“Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.”
“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!”
“Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.”
“Absolute perfection belongs not to man, nor to angels, but to God alone.”
“Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.”
“Do all the good you can by all the means 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.”
“I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship and the whole world for my mission field.”
“I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.”
“The best means of resisting the devil is, to destroy whatever of the world remains in us, in order to raise for God, upon its ruins, a building all of love. Then shall we begin, in this fleeting life, to love God as we shall love him in eternity.”
“The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.”
“Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth.”
“As the more holy we are upon earth the more happy we must be.”
“And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.”
1 All of the following quotes are from the websites below:
John Wesley Quotes (Author of A Plain Account of Christian Perfection)
92 John Wesley Quotes | ChristianQuotes.info
John Wesley’s Quotes – Seedbed