John Wesley People Quotations

When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.

Oh that God would give me the thing which I long for! That before I go hence and am no more seen, I may see a people wholly devoted to God, crucified to the world, and the world crucified to them. A people truly given up to God in body, soul and substance! How cheerfully would I then say, 'Now lettest thou thy servant depart in peace.'

The Church recruited people who had been starched and ironed before they were washed.

Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again.

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

My fear is not that our great movement, known as the Methodists, will eventually cease to exist or one day die from the earth. My fear is that our people will become content to live without the fire, the power, the excitement, the supernatural element that makes us great.

Catch on fire and people will come for miles to see you burn.

People who wish to be offended will always find some occasion for taking offense.

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power. And this undoubtedly will be the case unless they hold fast both the doctrine, spirit, and discipline with which they first set out.