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“I value all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.”
“Anything that cools my love for Christ is the world.”
“We should be continually labouring to cut off all the useless things that surround us; and God usually retrenches the superfluities of our souls in the same proportion as we do those of our bodies.”
“My talent is to speak my mind. God won’t object if you bury that talent.”
“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.“
“Give me one hundred men who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergyman or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon the earth.“
“God buries his workmen, but carries on his work.”
“You may be as orthodox as the devil and as wicked.”
“The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.”
“The best of it is, God is with us.”
“Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, at all the times you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.”
“When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.”
“To lay up treasure on earth is as plainly forbidden by our Master as adultery and murder.”
“In souls filled with love, the desire to please God is a continual prayer.”
“Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.”
“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”
“My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.“
“I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.”
“On every occasion of uneasiness, we should retire to prayer, that we may give place to the grace and light of God and then form our resolutions, without being in any pain about what success they may have.”
“The Bible knows nothing of solitary religion.”
“Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge“
“From the year 1725 to 1729 I preached much, but I saw no fruit of my labour. Indeed, it could not be that I should; for I neither laid the foundation for repentance, nor of believing the gospel; taking it for granted, that all to whom I preached were believers and that many of them “needed no repentance.”
“From 1738 to this time, speaking continually of Jesus Christ, laying Him only for the foundation of the whole building, making Him all in all, the first and the last; preaching only on this plan, “The kingdom of God is at hand; repent ye and believe the gospel;” the “word of God ran” as fire among the stubble; it “was glorified” more and more; multitudes were crying out, “What must we do to be saved?” and afterwards witnessing, “By grace we are saved through faith.”
“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.”
“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.”
“If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.”