30 phrases by John Wesley to get closer to God’s love

I consider the whole world as my parish.

A person can go to church twice a day, participate in the Lord’s Supper, pray in private as much as he can, attend every service and hear many sermons, read every book there is on Christ, but still he has to be born. again.

An ounce of love is worth more than a pound of knowledge.

Conversion takes the Christian out of the world; sanctification takes the world away from the Christian.

I believe that sanctification is the life of God in the soul of man, a sharing in the divine nature.

I don’t worry about what might happen a hundred years from now. He who ruled the world before I was born will take care of that as well, when I am dead. My part is to improve the present moment.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the real cause of all earthquakes.

Tell me how there can be three candles in this room and only one light, and then I will explain the Trinity to you.

I set myself on fire, and the people come to see me burn.

Your unique task on earth is this: to save souls.

Why do I do the same things all my life and make the same mistakes if I know these mistakes will make me feel bad?

Set your sermon on fire or set your sermon on fire.

⁠Lord, do not allow me to live in vain.

God is the generator and causer of all good that is in man or is done by him.

Whatever a man can do for his salvation is not the cause but the effect of grace.

I get up in the morning and salute the captain of my salvation and ask, what are the orders today?

⁠All the knowledge you want to have is in a single book: the Bible.

Cry with all your might to the One who forgives your sins, until you have the love of God poured out in your heart.

I am a man of one book: the Bible.

Before I can preach love and mercy and grace; I have to preach sin, the law and the last judgment.

Deliver me, O God, from idolatrous love to any creature. Free me from such blind affection.

The true knowledge of God is above reason, but not against reason.

⁠Seek happiness in Christ and in Him alone. Take care not to cling to the dust. This land is not your destiny.

We can raise up a generation that can sing, play, dance and preach very well; however, unless we know how to raise up a generation that knows how to pray, we will be a people without the Presence of God.

I want Methodists to be abiding examples of wisdom and a model in all things, great and small.

The spirit that is in the world is directly in opposition to the Spirit that is in God.

You only want love! There is nothing higher on earth and in heaven.

I am no longer mine, but Yours! Put me where You want, in the place You want, to work or to suffer, to exalt me ​​or to humiliate me.

Passion and prejudice rule the world under the name of reason.

Of all the gossip, the religious one is the worst. He adds hypocrisy and lack of love. He effectively does the devil’s work in the name of the Lord.