John Wesley Quotes
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one minute?' How then will you bear Hell-fire? Surely it would be torment enough to have the flesh burnt off from only one finger; what then will it be to have the whole body plunged into a lake of fire, burning with brimstone?
Wesley, John. "Of Hell." The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, vol. 6, John Mason, 1829, p. 384.
Action he advocated to his followers who attacked and killed pro-slavery advocates in Kansas. The civil war of Kansas was over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a slave state of a free state. If a free state, the free states would be able to block further slavery. If Kansas were to become a slave state, the slave states would have a sufficient majority to make all future expansion hospitable to slavery. The slavery forces started sending man and families into Kansas so that they could vote; the abolitionists did the same. Both sides armed and a war began with each faction trying to kill or drive the other faction out of Kansas before the vote. See {617388} and {612516}.
Depressed by the Union defeat at Fredericksburg in January of 1963, Lincoln observed of the presidency:
This Hadith is said to represent the view of the Prophet, Muhammad. In Islam its authority is second only to the Koran itself. This quotation is given by many Muslim Imams to illustrate that suicide of any kind is contrary to Islam. Therefore these imams condemn suicide bombing as un-Islamic. Others—the terrorists—obviously disagree.
John Wesley was an English cleric, theologian, and evangelist, who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day.
