John Wesley

Animals of the MONKEY class are furnished with hands instead of paws; their ears, eyes, eye-lids, lips, and breasts, are like those of mankind; their internal conformation also bears some distant likeness; and the whole offers a picture …

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

As to matters of dress, I would recommend one never to be first in the fashion nor the last out of it.

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.

I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.

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.

Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

I desire to have both heaven and hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.

The best of it all is, God is with us.

Reading this morning a tract wrote by a poor African, I was particularly struck by that circumstance, that a man who has a black skin, being wronged or outraged by a white man, can have no redress; it being a law in all our Colonies that …

That if the best of Kings—the most virtuous of Queens—and the most perfect Constitution, could make any nation happy, the people of this country had every reason to think themselves so.

I would do anything that is in my power toward the extirpation of that trade which is a scandal not only to Christianity but humanity.

But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, the brightest crown will be given to the sufferers.

I believe there is no liturgy in the World, either in ancient or modern language, which breathes more of a solid, scriptural, rational Piety, than the Common Prayer of the Church of England. And though the main of it was compiled …

Most of those who gave him this title did not distinguish between a Jacobite and a Tory; whereby I mean ‘one that believes God, not the people, to be the origin of all civil power.’ In this sense he was a Tory; so was my father; so am I. …

You must immediately drop any preacher that gives any countenance to Nathaniel Ward. While I live I will bear the most public testimony I can to the reality of witchcraft. Your denial of this springs originally from the Deists; and simple …

Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart.

I deny that villany is ever necessary. It is impossible that it should ever be necessary for any reasonable creature to violate all the laws of justice, mercy, and truth. No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder …

Though we cannot think alike, may we not love alike? May we not be of one heart, though we are not of one opinion? Without all doubt, we may. Herein all the children of God may unite, notwithstanding these smaller differences.

If he forbid you, do not you forbid him. Rather labour, and watch, and pray the more, to confirm your love toward him. If he speak all manner of evil of you, speak all manner of good (that is true) of him.

But beware of retorting. It is not your part to return evil for evil.

Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

If you will avoid all bigotry, go on. In every instance of this kind, whatever the instrument be, acknowledge the finger of God. And not only acknowledge, but rejoice in his work, and praise his name with thanksgiving. Encourage whomsoever …

Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it.