John Wesley Quotes

May nothing entice me till I happily make my way to Jesus Christ! Fire, cross, struggles with wild beasts, wrenching of bones, mangling of limbs - let them come to me, provided only I make my way to Jesus Christ.

Christians well know that the much-decorated statue of the Church, as it now stands, is not of pure chiseled marble, but of clay, cemented together by blood and tears and hardened in the fires of hatred and persecution.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

I'm fighting so I can die a martyr and go to heaven to meet God.

There's no way to get around the fact that Jesus is the only way to Heaven, and He is so good that He exchanged His place in Heaven to come suffer on a cross for humanity and rose to set us free from eternal life in Hell.

I think I'll be going to Heaven, because I had good intentions. But my actions are another thing.

For me, 'Lamb' started out as a further exploration of the phenomenon of faith and the responsibility of a messiah that I touched on in 'Coyote Blue' and 'Island of the Sequined Love Nun,' but it ended up being an exploration of the true meaning of sacrifice, loyalty, and friendship.

I see no faults in the Church, and therefore let me be resurrected with the Saints, whether I ascend to heaven or descend to hell, or go to any other place. And if we go to hell, we will turn the devils out of doors and make a heaven of it.

Christ died for me and you, and we embrace that or we don't.

I am one of the crucified dead.

Anything so precious as the gospel of Jesus Christ is worthy of all the effort and sacrifice of time and means employed to teach it.

Christianity made us think there's one heaven.

I'm a lapsed Catholic in the best sense of the word.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

I owe it all to Jesus.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

I believe that all men and women will be saved.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

To believe Christ's cross to be a friend, as he himself is a friend, is also a special act of faith.

One of the joys of being a Christian or being a person of faith is that you believe deep down that death isn't the worst thing, you know. Not living your life: that's the worst thing. And death is not, it's not all it's cracked up to be. It's not, it's not the end of the world.

In contrast, Christianity, while acknowledging the presence of suffering, declares that life can be infinitely worth living and opens the way to eternal life in fellowship with God Who so loved the world that He gave Himself in Christ.

Not in purity or in holiness merely, for in Paradise man was holy, and he shall be holy when redeemed through the sacrifice of Christ and made an heir of heaven.

What Must I Do to Be Saved? It is impossible to ask a more weighty Question! It is deplorable that we hear it asked with no more Frequency, with nor more Agony.

Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?