John Wesley Quotes

The world calls for, and expects from us, simplicity of life, the spirit of prayer, charity towards all, especially towards the lowly and the poor, obedience and humility, detachment, and self-sacrifice. Without this mark of holiness, our word will have difficulty in touching the heart of modern man.

God can make you anything you want to be, but you have to put everything in his hands.

Prayer is good: but when used as a substitute for obedience, it is naught but a blatant hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism.

It is clear that he does not pray, who, far from uplifting himself to God, requires that God shall lower Himself to him, and who resorts to prayer not to stir the man in us to will what God wills, but only to persuade God to will what the man in us wills.

Prayer doesn't just change things - it changes us. If we are diligent in seeking God, slowly and surely we become better people.

Christian life means sacrifice.

I'm trying to make sure that for myself and for my family, I'm staying as close to the heart of God that I possibly can.

That man cannot possibly be called a Christian, who does not pray.

Do you wish to grow in grace and be a holy Christian? Then never forget the value of prayer.

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.

The Christian will find his parentheses for prayer even in the busiest hours of life.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

He who would pray, must obey.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

To be a Christian and to pray are one and the same thing; it is a matter that cannot be left to our caprice. It is a need, a kind of breathing necessary to life.

If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.

Pray; and as you pray, surrender; and as you surrender, believe.

Always respond to every impulse to pray. The impulse to pray may come when you are reading or when you are battling with a text. I would make an absolute law of this: always obey such an impulse.

Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness.

Wherever it pleases God to put man in this world, the Christian must be ready for martyrdom and death. It is only in this way that man learns faith.

Feelings are great liars. If Christians worshipped only when they felt like it, there would be precious little worship. We think that if we don’t feel something there can be no authenticity in doing it. But the wisdom of God says something different: that we can act ourselves into a new way of feeling much quicker than we can feel ourselves into a new way of acting. Worship is an act that develops feelings for God, not a feeling for God that is expressed in an act of worship.

A ton of prayer will never produce what an ounce of obedience will.

If you want to be holy then you must give time to God and not just intend to.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Without prayer it is impossible to resist temptations and to keep the commandments.