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Susanna Wesley Quotes

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body

Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off your relish of spiritual things; in short, whatever increases the strength and authority of your body over your mind; that thing is sin to you, however innocent it may be in itself.

Susanna Wesley
Spiritual, May, Sin
"Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings".

Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation, but that every where I am in Thy Presence

Susanna Wesley
Prayer, Meditation, Church

The child that never learns to obey his parents in the home will not obey God or man out of the home.

Susanna Wesley
Children, Home, Parenting

There are two things to do about the gospel. Believe it and behave it.

Susanna Wesley
Believe, Two, Things To Do

I am content to fill a little space if God be glorified.

Susanna Wesley
Space, Littles, Christianity

When I had forgotten God, yet I then found He had not forgotten me. Even then He did by His Spirit apply the merits of the great atonement to my soul, by telling me that Christ died for me.

Susanna Wesley
Soul, Merit, Spirit
Susanna Wesley (1997). “Susanna Wesley: The Complete Writings”, p.241, Oxford University Press

I will tell you what rule I observed when I was young, and too much addicted to childish diversions-never to spend more time in mere recreation in one day than I spent in private religious devotions.

Susanna Wesley
Religious, One Day, Too Much

He is so infinitely blessed, that every perception of His blissful presence imparts a gladness to the heart. Every degree of approach to Him is, in the same proportion, a degree of happiness.

Susanna Wesley
Blessed, Heart, Perception
John Kirk, Susanna Wesley (1864). “The Mother of the Wesleys: A Biography”, p.268

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