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The distinguishing marks of a Methodist are not his opinions of any sort. His assenting to this or that scheme of Religion, his embracing any particular set of notions, his espousing the judgment of one man or of another, are all quite wide of the point.

— John Wesley The Character of a Methodist (1739)

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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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