Charles Wesley Quotes

God wants us to serve willingly and obediently.

People have to allow themselves to be used by God and Martin [Luther King, Jr.] committed himself totally to God's will and purpose and God is always waiting for someone who is willing to do that.

Many times Christians state their love for the Lord and their willingness to die for Him. I will make no pretense of knowing the Lord's will in your life, but I do feel that in most cases the Lord is far more interested in our living for Him than He is in our dying for Him.

God is looking for women and men who are full on for Him... people who have abandoned their own program and are just looking for how they can use their unique talents and abilities to further God's activities and programs in this world. These are the people God will tap on the shoulder and say, “Come with me and we're going to do something great in your lifetime. Come, we're going to do this together.

Let us fear to leave Him. Let us be always with Him. Let us live and die in His presence.

When we realize and embrace the Lord's will for us, we will love to do it. We won't want to do anything else. It's a passion.

The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

My commitment is to strive to lean on the Lord with my whole heart, reading His word daily and earnestly seeking His will in my life.

I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it.

Burning the candle at both ends for God's sake may be foolishness to the world, but it is a profitable Christian exercise-for so much better the light. Only one thing in life matters. Being found worthy of the Light of the World in the hour of His visitation. We need have no undue fear for our health if we work hard for the kingdom of God; God will take care of our health if we take care of His cause. In any case it is better to burn out than to rust out.

I've always believed in God. I remember once a guy asked me what it was like to be self-employed. I said, I'm not self employed. I work for God. The pay is good; He works me hard.

I want people to remember me that I was faithful, faithful to the gospel, faithful to the call that God gave me. And when I get to heaven, I'm going to ask him why he called me, because I was much used to milking cows and working on the farm than I was preaching.

God's highest desire is not to make us rich, successful or popular. His goal is to make us His

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone. We are not called first to special work but to God. The key to answering the call is to be devoted to no one and to nothing above God himself.

We simply want to follow God because we knows of the happiness it will bring, that's the reason that we chose to be open about our beliefs.

If we only understood that when we devote our lives to the glory of God, our existence on planet earth will leave marks---eternal marks.

Devotion to God is still a voluntary thing; hence the differences of attainment among Christians.

A famous monk once said, I don't always know what the right thing to do is, my Lord, but I think the fact that I want to please you pleases you.

Let us love God my brothers, let us love God. But let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow.

There is no greater threat to our devotion to Christ than our service for Christ.

The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

The Master hath called us, in life's early morning, With spirits as fresh as the dew on the sod: We turn from the world, with its smiles and its scorning, To cast in our lot with the people of God.

That man is the most immortal who has done the most and the best praying. They are God heroes, God's saints, God's servants, God's vicegerents.

The friend of God must not spend a day without God, and he must undertake no work apart from his God.

As Christians we are not out for our own cause at all, we are out for the cause of God, which can never be our cause. We do not know what God is after, but we have to maintain our relationship with Him whatever happens.