The best helps to growth in grace are the ill usage, the affronts, and the losses which befall us. We should receive them with all thankfulness, as preferable to all others, were it only on this account, that our will has no part therein.
John WesleyFierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.
John WesleyWe should constantly use the most common, little, easy words which our language affords.
John WesleyI 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.
John Wesley