John Wesley
John Wesley
John Wesleywas an Anglican cleric and theologian who, with his brother Charles and fellow cleric George Whitefield, is credited with the foundation of Methodism. His work and writings also played a leading role in the development of the Holiness movement and Pentecostalism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth28 June 1703
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Men of learning began to set experiments aside...to form theories...and to substitute these in the place of experiments.
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Giving up witchcraft is, in effect, giving up the Bible.
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When Poetry thus keeps its place as the handmaiden of piety, it shall attain not a poor perishable wreath, but a crown that fadeth not away.
soul your-soul
Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
greatness done communicate
God is so great that He communicates greatness to the least thing that is done for His service.
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Give me 100 men that hate nothing but sin, and love Jesus Christ, and we'll shake England for God.
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I look upon all the world as my parish.
best god
The best thing of all is God is with us.
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You cannot see the Grand Canyon in one view, as if it were a changeless spectacle from which a curtain might be lifted, but to see it you have to toil from month to month through its labyrinths.
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We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things.
running distance rivers
We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.
sublime elements canyons
The elements that unite to make the Grand Canyon the most sublime spectacle in nature are multifarious and exceedingly diverse.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
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The verb is relatively of much greater importance in an Indian tongue than in a civilized language.