John Wesley Quotes

To us sin has not become any less of a mystery or a pain.

You will never see the preciousness of a Savior, if you do not see the reality of your sin.

It is the easiest thing in the world to become a Christian - ten thousand times easier than it is to hold out unrepenting against the motives which God presents to the mind, to induce it to forsake its evil thoughts and turn unto Him.

You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!

God-fearing people, once they're saved from their sins, they don't mind talking about it.

Much of the impotence of American churches is tied to a profound ignorance and apathy about justification. Our people live in a fog of guilt. Or just as bad, they think being a better person is all God requires.

The essential point of view of Christianity is sin.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

I believe in Jesus Christ as my Lord and savior. I believe that Jesus died for my sins, and rose again, and that's my belief. I still don't know what 'Christian' means. I'm a follower of Christ, but I keep making a whole bunch of mistakes. And I thank God for forgiveness.

History has brought us to the point where the Christian message is thought to be essential concerned only with how to deal with sin: with wrongdoing or wrong-being and its effects. Life, our actual existence, is not included in what is now presented as the heart of the Christian message, or it is included only marginally.

It was not the volume of sin that sent Christ to the cross; it was the fact of sin.

Only we big sinners have this grace of knowing what salvation really means.

If He prayed who was without sin, how much more it becometh a sinner to pray!

Only sinners need saviors.

Jesus came to save us from our own sins.

In salvation we are not only saved from sin and damnation; we are saved unto holiness. The goal of redemption is holiness.

The knowledge of sin is the beginning of salvation.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

I am a weak and sinful man, but God put His hands on me, that is all.

Repentance is the sweet fruit that comes from faith in the Savior and involves turning toward God and away from sin.

Forgiveness of sin strikes the root of all pain.

We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new.

Jesus is coming back for a church without a spot or a wrinkle. His righteous blood covers the spots and the wrinkles of those who believe unto righteousness, allowing once sinful men to be holy.

Heaven finds an ear when sinners find a tongue.

I never had an intellectual struggle with the Bible, with the gospel, with the claims of Christ.