No outward practices will stand in the place of the new birth. Nothing under heaven will stand in its place. - John Wesley

I do not intend to enter upon the question whether the Americans are in the right or in the wrong. Here all my prejudices are against the Americans; for I am an High Churchman, the son of an High Churchman, bred up from my childhood in the highest notions of passive obedience and non-resistance. And yet, in spite of my long-rooted prejudices, I cannot avoid thinking, if I think at all, these, an oppressed people, asked for nothing more than their legal rights, and that in the most modest and inoffensive manner that the nature of the thing would allow.

You have one business on earth – to save souls.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.