John Wesley

John WesleyJohn Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism.

John Wesley Quotes

God regards his meanest creatures much; but he regards man much more.

—John Wesley

Allowing that the whole creation now groaneth together under the sin of man, our comfort is, it will not always groan: God will arise and maintain His own cause; and the whole creation shall then be delivered both from moral and natural corruption.

—John Wesley

Persecution never did, never could, give any lasting wound to genuine Christianity.

—John Wesley

There was no room for them in the inn — Now also, there is seldom room for Christ in an inn.

—John Wesley

Religion is an higher and deeper thing than any outward ordinance whatever.

—John Wesley

Let us bear a faithful testimony, in our several stations, against all ungodliness and unrighteousness, and with all our might recommend that inward and outward holiness without which no man shall see the Lord!

—John Wesley

Nothing is impossible to him that believeth: You can do all things through Christ that strengtheneth you. Do valiantly; and stand fast in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made you free.

—John Wesley

Give Him all your heart! Let all that is within you continually cry out, Thou art my God, and I will thank Thee; Thou art my God, and I will praise Thee.

—John Wesley

He cannot, at one and the same time, follow his own will, and follow the will of God: He must choose the one or the other; denying God’s will, to follow his own; or denying himself, to follow the will of God.

—John Wesley

If you resolve and design to follow Christ, you are fit to approach the Lord’s table.

—John Wesley

Lo! God is here! not afar off. Now believe and feel him near!

—John Wesley

How astonishingly little do we know of God!—How small a part of his nature do we know of his essential attributes!

—John Wesley

Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and all His wisdom, and power, and faithfulness are engaged on thy side.

—John Wesley

Oh speak and spare not, whatever thou believest may conduce, either to the amending my faults, the strengthening my weakness, the building me up in love, or the making me more fit, in any kind, for the Master’s use!

—John Wesley

Whosoever thou art, to whom God hath given to be poor in spirit, to feel thyself lost, thou hast a right thereto, through the gracious promise of Him who cannot lie. It is purchased for thee by the blood of the Lamb.

—John Wesley

We follow no men any farther than they are followers of Christ.

—John Wesley

And from the time we are accepted through the Beloved, reconciled to God through His blood, He loves, and blesses, and watches over us for good, even as if we had never sinned.

—John Wesley

You cannot stand still; you must either rise or fall; rise higher or fail lower. Therefore the voice of God to the children of Israel, to the children of God, is, Go forward!

—John Wesley