I know no other book in the world, that contains so many strong and clear proofs of the being and perfections of God, and of the truth of our holy religion, as the Bible.
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"I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion to travel with, it should be one that would talk little."
"The more I see of the working of the present government, the more I am convinced that they are ripe for destruction."
"I deny that I am an enthusiast in the common sense of the word. I am no visionary. I do not pretend to any new revelations, to any extraordinary gifts of the Holy Ghost, to any particular inspiration,…"
"I have not found one single man, among all those I have conversed with, who is able to give a rational account of the difference between an honest man and a rogue."
"I desire no other epitaph, than 'Here lies the friend of all, and the enemy of none.'"
English Anglican cleric and founder of Methodism, whose open-air preaching and class-meeting structure created the largest 18th-century evangelical revival. Closely associated with Charles Wesley (his hymn-writing brother) and George Whitefield (early co-revivalist, later doctrinal opponent). For an intellectual contrast, see George Whitefield, Calvinist evangelical revivalist — Whitefield's predestinarian Calvinism vs Wesley's free-grace Arminian theology split the early Methodist movement permanently in the 1739-41 break. The founding evangelical Calvinist-Arminian schism — the two parallel evangelical traditions American Christianity descends from.
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No other book provides as many compelling, clear arguments for God's existence and divine attributes, or for the validity of Christianity, as the Bible does. Wesley is asserting Scripture's unique authority as the supreme rational and spiritual foundation for religious belief — not merely a book of faith but the strongest available evidence for God and Christian truth.
Wesley was a systematic theologian and tireless preacher who rode 250,000 miles and delivered 40,000 sermons grounded in Scripture. His Methodist movement was built on 'sola scriptura' discipline — he founded Bible study societies, published biblical commentaries, and called followers to daily Scripture reading. This quote reflects his lifelong conviction that the Bible was Christianity's intellectual and spiritual bedrock.
Wesley lived through the Enlightenment, when rationalist philosophers like Hume and Voltaire challenged religious authority and demanded evidence-based reasoning. Deism was fashionable among educated Europeans, reducing God to a remote clockmaker. Wesley's assertion reframes Scripture not as blind tradition but as a book of proofs — deliberately engaging Enlightenment epistemology by claiming the Bible could satisfy even rational scrutiny.
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