John Wesley

John Wesley (28 June 1703 - 2 March 1791) English preacher; founder of the Methodist movement.

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I observed, "Love is the fulfilling of the law, the end of the commandment." It is not only "the first and great" command, but all the commandments in one. "Whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise," they are all comprised in this one word, love.
- Wesley quoting his own sermon on "The Circumsicion of the Heart" (January 1, 1733) in the work A Plain Account Of Christian Perfection (Edition of 1777)

I look on all the world as my parish; thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
- Journal (11 June 1739)

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.
- Journal (12 February 1772) after reading Some historical accounts of Guinea by Anthony Benezet.

Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassion there? Do you never feel another's pain? Have you no Sympathy? No sense of human woe? No pity for the miserable? When you saw the flowing eyes, the heaving breasts, or the bleeding sides and tortured limbs of your fellow-creatures, was you a stone, or a brute? Did you look upon them with the eyes of a tiger? When you squeezed the agonizing creatures down in the ship, or when you threw their poor mangled remains into the sea, had you no relenting? Did not one tear drop from your eye, one sigh escape from your breast? Do you feel no relenting now? If you do not, you must go on, till the measure of your iniquities is full. Then will the Great GOD deal with You, as you have dealt with them, and require all their blood at your hands.
- Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774)

I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.
- Letter to Charles Wesley

Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion; that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
- Sermon 93 On Dress

I believe that He was made man, joining the human nature with the divine in one person; being conceived by the singular operation of the Holy Ghost, and born of the blessed Virgin Mary, who, as well after as before she brought Him forth, continued a pure and unspotted virgin.
- "Letter to a Roman Catholic" (DUBLIN July 18,1749) [1]

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.
- J. H. Plumb, England in the Eighteenth Century (1714 - 1815) (Pelican, 1964),p. 94.

The Church is to be judged by the Scriptures, not the Scriptures by the Church.

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

Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

I desired as many as could to join together in fasting and prayer, that God would restore the spirit of love and of a sound mind to the poor deluded rebels in America.

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

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

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.