John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesleywas an Anglican cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of Methodism. His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 June 1703
long weakness helping
As long as you feel your own weakness and helplessness, you will find help from above.
giving long people
Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'
heart long rooms
For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?
long suffering way
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
league vision needs
He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.
best god
The best thing of all is God is with us.
I look upon the whole world as my parish.
died
I the chief of sinners am, but Jesus died for me.
heart hands way
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.
recovery mean justice
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.
greatness done communicate
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
strong prayer believe
I believe there is no liturgy in the world, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled considerably more than two hundred years ago, yet is the language of it, not only pure, but strong and elegant in the highest degree.
change-for-the-better instruction wiser
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.
jesus hate life-changing
Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.