There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.

Susanna Wesley (John Wesley’s Mother, 1669 – 1742)

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

Susanna Wesley (John Wesley’s Mother, 1669 – 1742)

Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

Francis Asbury (Minister, 1745 – 1816)

We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifying, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

Francis Asbury (Minister, 1745 – 1816)

We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

Francis Asbury (Minister, 1745 – 1816)

My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Francis Asbury (Minister, 1745 – 1816)

When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: ‘Oh! that I could do what pleases God!’ When they come to suffer any cross: ‘Oh, that what God does might please me!’ I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

Jeremiah Burroughs (Preacher, 1600 – 1646)

Faith has this excellency, that it is able to bring life out of death, light out of darkness. It has a kind of creating virtue.

Jeremiah Burroughs (Preacher, 1600 – 1646)

Holiness is the very principle of eternal life, the very beginning of eternal life in the heart, and that which will certainly grow up to eternal life.

Jeremiah Burroughs (Preacher, 1600 – 1646)

Oh, that we could but convince men and women that murmuring spirit is a greater evil than any affliction, whatever the affliction!

Jeremiah Burroughs (Preacher, 1600 – 1646)