4 John Wesley Quotes on Spirituality

John Wesley quotes on spirituality

4. Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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

28. Beware, lastly, of imagining you shall obtain the end without using the means conducive to it. God can give the end without any means at all; but you have no reason to think He will. Therefore constantly and carefully use all those means which He has appointed to be the ordinary channels of His grace. Use every means which either reason or Scripture recommends, as conducive (through the free love of God in Christ) either to the obtaining or increasing any of the gifts of God. Thus expect a daily growth in that pure and holy religion which the world always did, and always will, call 'enthusiasm;' but which, to all who are saved from real enthusiasm, from merely nominal Christianity, is 'the wisdom of God, and the power of God;' the glorious image of the Most High; 'righteousness and peace;' a 'fountain of living water, springing up into everlasting life!'

30. When I have money, I get rid of it quickly, lest it find a way into my heart.