Shocking Sayings

The reprobate are not able to believe, because God does not give them the gift of faith.

The elect are preserved by the power of God unto salvation.

The reprobate are not able to repent, because God does not give them the grace of repentance.

I was much surprised to find that the Bishop of London, in his late Pastoral Letter, has taken occasion to caution the Clergy of his diocese against 'enthusiasm,' and to warn them against 'the new doctrine of regeneration by the Holy Ghost.'

I am not afraid that the people called Methodists should ever cease to exist either in Europe or America. But I am afraid lest they should only exist as a dead sect, having the form of religion without the power.

Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on Earth.

I offered Christ to the Negroes in Antigua. I offered him to the slaves. I offered him to the very dregs of the people.

It is not possible for any one to be a true Christian believer, and not be a lover of mankind.

I have been in this city for over a year, yet I have not seen one instance of a truly awakened soul.

It is a melancholy proof of the blindness and ignorance of mankind, that they are not aware of the evil of sin.

By Methodists, I mean such as profess to pursue a Christian life by Scriptural rules and methods.

Beware of judging men by their outward appearance, but judge them by their fruits.

We have nothing to do but to save souls.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

The world is my parish.

God grant that I may never live to be useless!

Holy tempers are the very essence of religion.

I am not afraid of dying. I have no fear of death.

I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in power and reaches to the ends of the earth.

Reading the Scripture, I find there no other way to heaven than the way of holiness.