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Do you know why that cow looks over that wall? She looks over the wall because she cannot see through it, and that is what you must do with your troubles... Look over and above them.
John Wesley
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John Wesley
Age: 87 †
Born: 1703
Born: June 17
Died: 1791
Died: March 2
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The wearing of costly array is directly opposite to being adorned with good works. Nothing can be more evident than this for the more you lay out on your own apparel, the less you have left to clothe the naked, to feed the hungry, to lodge the stranger, to relieve those that are sick and in prison.
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When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.
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One of the principal rules of religion is, to lose no occasion of serving God. And, since he is invisible to our eyes, we are to serve him in our neighbour which he receives as if done to himself in person, standing visibly before us.
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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?
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Get all you can without hunting your soul, your body, or your neighbor. Save all you can, cutting off every needless expense. Give all you can. Be glad to give, and ready to distribute laying up in store for yourselves a good foundation against the time to come, that you may attain eternal life.
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The neglect of prayer is a grand hindrance to holiness.
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The man who never fasts is no more in the way to heaven than the man who never prays.
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Money never stays with me. It would burn me if it did. I throw it out of my hands as soon as possible, lest it should find its way into my heart.
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Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.
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Faith is the divine evidence whereby the spiritual man discerneth God, and the things 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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[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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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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Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul.
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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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The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself and less from others.
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A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.
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Try all things by the written word, and let all bow down before it. You are in danger of [fanaticism] every hour, if you depart ever so little from Scripture yea, or from the plain, literal meaning of an text, taken in connection with the context.
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