John Wesley Quotes

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

Saints spring and thrive most internally, when they are most externally afflicted. Afflictions are the mother of virtue.

The readiest way which God takes to draw a man to himself is, to afflict him in that he loves most, and with good reason; and to cause this affliction to arise from some good action done with a single eye; because nothing can more clearly show him the emptiness of what is most lovely and desirable in the world.

Christians ought to suspect that affliction is the very essence of creation. To be a created thing is not necessarily to be afflicted, but it is necessarily to be exposed to affliction. ... Affliction is the surest sign that God wishes to be loved by us; it is the most precious evidence of His tenderness.

Christ's enemies are but breaking their own heads in pieces, upon the Rock laid in Zion; and the stone is not removed out of its place. Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know that he but heweth and polisheth stones, all this time, for the new Jerusalem.

The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.

The more afflictions you have been under, the more assistance you have had for this life of holiness.

Suffering in the path of Christian obedience, with joy - because the steadfast love of the Lord is better than life (Psalm 63:3) - is the clearest display of the worth of God in our lives. Therefore, faith-filled suffering is essential in this world for the most intense, authentic worship. When we are most satisfied with God in suffering, he will be most glorified in us in worship. Our problem is not styles of music. Our problem is styles of life. When we embrace more affliction for the worth of Christ, there will be more fruit in the worship of Christ.

The furnace of affliction is a good place for you, Christian; it benefits you; it helps you to become more like Christ, and it is fitting you for heaven.

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

If the sun of God's countenance shine upon me, I may well be content to be wet with the rain of affliction.

If you find yourself mistreated, misunderstood, and mocked as a Christian, take heart, for so they did to the Christ.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

The highest honor that God can confer upon his children is the blood-red crown of martyrdom. The jewels of a Christian are his afflictions. The regalia of the kings that God has made, are their troubles, their sorrows, and their griefs. Griefs exalt us, and troubles lift us.

Afflictions have the same use and end to our souls, that frosty weather hath upon those clothes that are laid and bleaching, they alter the hue and make them white.

I believe the hard heartest, most cross grained and most unloving Christians in all the world are those who have not had much trouble in their life. And those that are the most sympathizing, loving and Christlike are generally those who have the most affliction. The worse thing that can happen to any of us is to have a path made too smooth. One of the greatest blessings the Lord ever gave us was a cross.

Afflictions make the heart more deep, more experimental, more knowing and profound, and so, more able to hold, to contain, and beat more.

AFFLICTION, n. An acclimatizing process preparing the soul for another and bitter world.

The Christian must know that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him according to his need.

God often hides His blessing in trouble or trial, which makes it all the sweeter when it comes our way.

The blood of Christians is seed.