John Wesley on Faith
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
8 quotations from John Wesley on Faith, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from. Follow any of them into the full text — free, and without an account.
A Plain Account of Christian Perfection 2
The pure love of our neighbour, springing from the love of God, thinketh no evil, believeth and hopeth all things.
The foundation is faith, purifying the heart; the end love, preserving a good conscience.
Sermons on Several Occasions 6
Believe in the Lord Jesus; and thou, even thou, art reconciled to God.
God gives this faith; in that moment we are accepted of God; and yet, not for the sake of that faith, but of what Christ has done and suffered for us.
Faith is the condition, and the only condition, of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification.
Reason, however cultivated and improved, cannot produce the love of God; which is plain from hence: It cannot produce either faith or hope; from which alone this love can flow.
The root of all religion is faith, without which it is impossible to please God.
Faith worketh by love; faith overcometh the world; faith purifieth the heart; faith, in the smallest measure, removeth mountains.