In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways 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.

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

Condemn no man for not thinking as you think. Let every one enjoy the full and free liberty of thinking for himself. Let every man use his own judgment, since every man must give an account of himself to God. Abhor every approach, in any kind or degree, to the spirit of persecution, if you cannot reason nor persuade a man into the truth, never attempt to force a man into it. If love will not compel him to come, leave him to God, the judge of all.

At four in the afternoon, I submitted to be more vile and proclaimed in the highways the glad tidings of salvation.

My ground is the Bible. Yea, I am a Bible-bigot. I follow it in all things, both great and small.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.