:: John Wesley and his love for the bible ::

To candid and reasonable men I am not afraid to lay open what have been the inmost thoughts of my heart.

I have thought, I am a creature of a day, passing through life as an arrow through the air.

I am a spirit come from God, and returning to God; just hovering over the great gulf; till a few moments hence I am no more seen; I drop into an unchangeable eternity!

I want to know one thing – the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore.

God Himself has condescended to teach the way; for this very end He came from heaven.

He hath written it down in a book.

O give me that book!

At any price, give me that book of God!

I have it: here is knowledge enough for me.

Let me be homo unius libri.

Here then I am, far from the busy ways of men.

I sit down alone: only God is here.

In His presence I open, I read His book; for this end, to find the way to heaven.

... And what I thus learn, that I teach.


Here I am: I and my Bible.

I will not, I dare not, vary from this book,either in great things or small.

I have no power to dispense with one jot or tittleof what is contained therein.

I am determined to be a Bible Christian,not almost, but altogether.

Who will meet me on this ground?

Join me on this, or not at all.