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.

My talent is to speak my mind. God won't object if you bury that talent.

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

The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.

God does nothing except in response to believing prayer.

The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.

Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?