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When I was young I was sure of everything. In a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before. At present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to man.

— John Wesley

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Think not the bigotry of another is any excuse for your own.

Sermons on Several Occasions (1771)

But when the Son of Man shall come in his glory, the brightest crown will be given to the sufferers.

In returning I read a very different book, published by an honest Quaker, on that execrable sum of all villanies, commonly called the Slave-trade.

Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.

Every one, though born of God in an instant, yet undoubtedly grows by slow degrees.

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