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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The integers of language are sentences, and their organs are the parts of speech. Linguistic organization, then, consists in the differentiation of the parts of speech and the integration of the sentence.
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Humility and patience are the surest proofs of the increase of love.
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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.
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There is no love of God without patience, and no patience without lowliness and sweetness of spirit.
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The bible knows nothing of solitary religion.
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Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.
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I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this end He came from heaven. He hath written it down in a book. Give me that book! At any price give me the Book of God!
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Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree...
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All worldly joys are less than that one joy of doing kindnesses.
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Holy solitaries' is a phrase no more consistent with the Gospel than holy adulterers. The Gospel of Christ knows no religion but social; no holiness, but social holiness.
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[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.
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He's got everything - good vision, his speed, his shot, all those intangibles that you need to be a superstar in this league. He has it all.
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Nay, if there be any mistakes in the Bible, there may as well be a thousand. If there be one falsehood in that book, it did not come from the God of truth
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We are always open to instruction, willing to be wiser every day than we were before, and to change whatever we can change for the better.