John Wesley Quotes

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

No man should desire to be happy who is not at the same time holy. He should spend his efforts in seeking to know and do the will of God, leaving to Christ the matter of how happy he should be.

The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.

In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal. Its works are pleasing both to God and man, rising from the River of Life, beside which it is rooted like a tree.

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.

In the end, you're trying to find God. That's the result of not being satisfied. And it doesn't matter how much money, or property, or whatever you've got, unless you're happy in your heart, then that's it. And unfortunately, you can never gain perfect happiness unless you've got that state of consciousness that enables that.

Love God and find him within - the only treasure worth finding.

Every day is a Sabbath to me. All pure water is holy water, and this earth is a celestial abode.

To work with God's happiness bubbling in the soul is to carry a portable paradise within you wherever you go.

You must arrange your days so that you are experiencing deep contentment, joy and confidence in your everyday life with God.

Mysticism: to dwell on the unseen, to withdraw ourselves from the things of sense into communion with God - to endeavour to partake of the Divine nature; that is, of Holiness.

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.

Simplicity reaches out after God; purity discovers and enjoys Him.

The true Christian ideal is not to be happy but to be holy.

What we should be after death, we have to attain in life, i.e. holiness and bliss. Here on earth the Kingdom of God begins.

An hour spent in the presence of God brings the purest joy known to man.

Happiness comes from holiness. You can't truly be happy unless you're hungry for Jesus Christ.

There is no sweeter manner of living in the world than continuous communion with God.

Purity is not imposed upon us as though it were a kind of punishment, it is one of those mysterious but obvious conditions of that supernatural knowledge of ourselves in the Divine, which we speak of as faith. Impurity does not destroy this knowledge, it slays our need for it.

We must first pray, that God would make us wise; before we can wish, he would make us happy.

Contentment does not come from achievement. It comes from a relationship with the Lord.

The way you become divine is to become wholly human.