Quotations
Wesley: Charity's Almighty Call
Thursday/May/2013 14:05 Filed in: John Wesley | Quotations
John Wesley the Hopeful Inclusivist
”…I have no authority from the Word of God ‘to judge those that are without.’ Nor do I conceive that any man living has a right to sentence all the heathen and Mahometan world to damnation.” Read More...Wesley: Why Aren't All Saved?
Wednesday/April/2013 08:30 Filed in: John Wesley
"If you ask, 'Why then are not all men saved?' the whole law and the testimony answer….” Read More...Wesley: Offering Salvation to Every Creature
Saturday/March/2013 07:58 Filed in: John Wesley
A brief quote from John Wesley. The Purpose of Christ’s Coming
Wednesday/December/2012 11:46 Filed in: John Wesley
Wesley: What Is the Witness of the Spirit?
Thursday/November/2012 13:42 Filed in: John Wesley
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The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.' (Romans 8:16). But what is the witness of the Spirit? Read More...
The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God.' (Romans 8:16). But what is the witness of the Spirit? Read More...John Wesley on Schism
Monday/October/2012 13:53 Filed in: John Wesley
“[Schism] is evil in itself. To separate ourselves from a body of living Christians, with whom we were before united, is a grievous breach of the law of love….” Read More...Wesley: The Purpose of Christ’s Coming
Monday/October/2012 11:50 Filed in: John Wesley
Chesterton on Miracles
Thursday/September/2012 08:48 Filed in: Theology
“But my belief that miracles have happened in human history is not a mystical belief at all….” Read More...Praying Like a Child
Wednesday/August/2012 10:53 Filed in: Prayer
A quotation from an excellent book on prayer.Wesley: Against Theological Indifference
Thursday/July/2012 12:13 Filed in: John Wesley
“For, from hence we may learn, first, that a catholic spirit is not speculative latitudinarianism. It is not an indifference to all opinions: this is the spawn of hell, not the offspring of heaven….” Read More...Wesley: All Devoted to God
Wednesday/July/2012 10:27 Filed in: John Wesley
“In 1727, I read Mr. Law's 'Christian Perfection,' and 'Serious Call,' and….”Wesley: The New Birth
Thursday/June/2012 15:16 Filed in: John Wesley
”It is that great change which God works in the soul when he brings it into life….” Read More...Chrysostom: The Fortress of the Faithful
Thursday/June/2012 14:27 Filed in: Prayer
Chrysostom: “Prayer is the fortress of the faithful, prayer is our invincible weapon….” Read More...G. A. Studdard Kennedy: Keep On Seeking!
Friday/June/2012 15:08 Filed in: Quotations
“The faculty of faith is not meant to kill the faculty of criticism and the instinct of curiosity, but rather to keep them keen and alive….” Read More...Wesley: The Nature of Christian Salvation
Thursday/May/2012 09:47 Filed in: John Wesley | Christian Perfection
”Salvation begins with what is usually termed (and very properly) preventing grace; including the first wish to please God….” Read More...Wesley: A Sinful Body?
Wednesday/May/2012 16:54 Filed in: John Wesley | Christian Perfection
John Wesley responds to this objection: ‘But surely we cannot be saved from sin, while we dwell in a sinful body.’ Read More...Determinism & Common Sense
Wednesday/May/2012 16:07 Filed in: Quotations
A quotation from G. K. Chesterton: “On that day, in short, I escaped from an error, which still entangles many better men than myself….” Read More...Wesley: The Original Design of the Methodists
Wednesday/May/2012 10:16 Filed in: John Wesley
A brief quote from John Wesley.Lindström: We Either Wax or Wane
Tuesday/May/2012 14:43 Filed in: Wesleyan Theology
“There is no perfection 'which does not admit of a continual increase.’”Wesley: On Being Open to Correction
Tuesday/May/2013 15:02 Filed in: John Wesley
“But some may say, I have mistaken the way myself, although I take upon me to teach it to others…” Read More...Wesley: The Purpose of Life
Tuesday/May/2012 16:31 Filed in: John Wesley
John Wesley comments on the purpose of life. Wesley: The Original Design of the Church
Wednesday/April/2012 10:22 Filed in: John Wesley
A brief quote from John Wesley.Wesley: The Nature of True Faith
Tuesday/April/2012 09:44 Filed in: John Wesley | Quotations
“Only beware thou do not deceive thy own soul with regard to the nature of this faith….” Read More...A Test of Spiritual Experiences
Friday/April/2012 11:07 Filed in: Wesleyan Theology | Christian Perfection
"Another ground of these, and a thousand mistakes, is, the not considering deeply, that love is the highest gift of God….” Read More...Wesley: A Full Reliance on the Blood of Christ
Tuesday/April/2012 18:23 Filed in: John Wesley
The Neglect of Private Prayer
Friday/March/2012 12:02 Filed in: John Wesley
Holding the World Together
Monday/March/2012 08:57 Filed in: Prayer
A wonderful quote on prayer, from St. John Climacus (ca. 579-649).“Unite the pair so long disjoined"
Tuesday/March/2012 15:10 Filed in: Wesleyan Theology
Old Testament Foundations
Tuesday/February/2012 09:44 Filed in: Bible
Wesley on Pelagius
Saturday/February/2012 15:03 Filed in: John Wesley
References to Pelagius in the writings of John Wesley. Wesley gave the man the benefit of the doubt. Read More...S. D. Gordon: God's Power is Moral Power
Tuesday/May/2013 16:53 Filed in: Quotations
A quotation from an old book on prayer. Wesley: A Man of One Book
Wednesday/February/2012 11:30 Filed in: John Wesley
Bonhoeffer On Christianity Without Discipleship
Sunday/February/2012 16:46 Filed in: Internet Links
A great quote from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship.Judgement, Hope and the UMC
Sunday/February/2012 17:12 Filed in: Methodism
Remarks on the state of the United Methodist Church by Florida Bishop Timothy W. Whitaker. Read More...Seeking a Blessing or Seeking God?
Monday/January/2012 14:48 Filed in: Holiness
“Once it was the blessing, Now it is the Lord....”Wesley: The Whole of Christian Perfection
Thursday/December/2012 08:28 Filed in: John Wesley | Christian Perfection
“What is then the perfection of which man is capable while he dwells in a corruptible body?” Read More...John Wesley’s New Year
Friday/December/2012 11:25 Filed in: John Wesley
How John Wesley Spent the New Year in 1785.Wesley: “Methodists” Described
Tuesday/April/2013 11:50 Filed in: John Wesley | Quotations
John Wesley On Prayer
Monday/April/2013 14:25 Filed in: John Wesley
Wesley: Two Paths
A quote from John Wesley: Christians have “the choice of walking in the higher or the lower path.” Read More...A Holy Dissatisfaction is Aroused
Wednesday/April/2013 18:06 Filed in: Methodism
Theodore Runyon on sanctification and social change.
