Charles Wesley Quotes

Man is created to be God's deputy on earth and it is important to realize the obligation to rid ourselves of all illusions and to make our lives a preparation for the next life.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

We cannot sit still and see the dear Burmans, flesh and blood like ourselves and, like ourselves, possessed of immortal souls that will shine forever in heaven or burn forever in hell - we cannot see them go down to perdition without doing our very utmost to save them. And thanks be to God, our labors are not in vain.

I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.

Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.

The eternal salvation of a single soul is more important than anything else you will ever achieve in life.

The life of a conscientious clergyman is not easy. I have always considered a clergyman as the father of a larger family than he is able to maintain. I would rather have chancery suits upon my hands than the cure of souls.

Religion is, in fact, the dominion of the soul; it is the hope, the anchor of safety, the deliverance from evil. What a service has Christianity rendered to humanity!

It is a tragedy when the church saves money instead of saving souls. We MUST spend to save.

A church is a soul-saving company or it is nothing.

Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace without soul peace.

Dying is the last,but the least matter that a Christian has to be anxious about

There are no unsavable souls.

One single soul saved shall outlive and outweigh all the kingdoms of the world.

We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives.

The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.

We are here to assist our Father in His work and His glory, 'to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man' (Moses 1:39). Your obligation is as serious in your sphere of responsibility as is my obligation in my sphere.

(On entering Carmel) I came to save souls and especially to pray for priests.

The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life.

The glory of the salvation of souls belongs to God, and to Him alone.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Never was there a more injurous mistake than to say it was thebusiness only of the clergy to care for souls.

We may live in a culture that believes everyone will be saved, that we are 'justified by death' and all you need to do to go to heaven is die, but God’s Word certainly doesn’t give us the luxury of believing that.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.