Quote #7
Passion and prejudice govern the world; only under the name of reason. It is our part, by religion and reason joined, to counteract them all we can.
More from John Wesley
- Beware you be not swallowed up in books! An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
- In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave…
- The longer I live, the larger allowances I make for human infirmities. I exact more from myself, and less from others. Go thou and do likew…
- Are you a man? Then you should have an human heart. But have you indeed? What is your heart made of? Is there no such principle as Compassi…
- Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.
- No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.
- The distinguishing marks of a Methodist are not his opinions of any sort. His assenting to this or that scheme of Religion, his embracing a…
- Permit me, sir, to give you one piece of advice. Be not so positive; especially with regard to things which are neither easy nor necessary …