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When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.
John Wesley
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John Wesley
Age: 87 †
Born: 1703
Born: June 17
Died: 1791
Died: March 2
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They (the creatures) encourage us to imitate Him whose mercy is over all His works. It may enlarge our hearts toward these poor creatures to reflect that not one of them is forgotten in the sight of our Father which is in heaven.
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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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The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.
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Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not whether they be clergymen or laymen, they alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon Earth.
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They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.
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Let it be observed, that slovenliness is no part of religion that neither this, nor any text of Scripture, condemns neatness of apparel. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.
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Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus
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Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?
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All outward means of grace, if separate from the spirit of God, cannot profit, or conduce, in any degree, either to the knowledge or love of God. All outward things, unless he work in them and by them, are in vain.
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It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.
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I look on all the world as my parish thus far I mean, that, in whatever part of it I am, I judge it meet, right, and my bounden duty, to declare unto all that are willing to hear, the glad tidings of salvation.
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The giving up of (a belief in) witchcraft is in effect the giving up of (a beilief in) the Bible.
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You have nothing to do but to save souls therefore spend and be spent in this work.
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Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
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For as long as love takes up the whole heart, what room is there for sin therein?
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You have one business on earth – to save souls.
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May we not say, that true zeal is not mostly charitable, but wholly so? That is, if we take charity in St. Paul's sense, for love the love of God and our neighbour. For it is a certain truth, (although little understood in the world), that Christian zeal is all love. It is nothing else.
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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.
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If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike and can anything but love beget love?
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