"I look upon all the world as my parish."

"Gain all you can; save all you can; give all you can."

"Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."

"Christianity is essentially a social religion and to turn it into a solitary religion is to destroy it."

"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."

"We may think and let think; we may ‘agree to disagree.’ But, meantime, let us hold fast the essentials of the faith which was once delivered unto the saints…."

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