(not a shadow thereof, but a real degree, by the preventing grace of God,) - John Wesley

Unless God has raised you up for this very thing, you will be worn out by the opposition of men and devils. But if God be for you, who can be against you? Are all of them together stronger than God? O be not weary of well doing!

Do all the good you can,
By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as you ever can.

Thus it is unquestionably true that he who has been born of God, by “keeping himself,” does not, cannot sin; and yet, if he does not keep himself, he may commit all manner of sin with greediness.