Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of accumulation followed by generosity.
John Wesley's quote outlines a three-step approach to financial and resource management: first, gather all that you can through hard work and diligence; second, save as much as possible for future security; and finally, give generously to others. This perspective promotes a balance between personal prosperity and altruism, suggesting that true fulfillment comes from not only achieving wealth but also using it to benefit those in need.
In practice
During a charity event, I could use this quote to inspire people to donate more.
I continue to dream and pray about a revival of holiness in our day that moves forth in mission and creates authentic community in which each person can be unleashed through the empowerment of the Spirit to fulfill God's creational intentions.
I plainly felt that, had God given me such a retirement with the companion I desired, I should have forgotten the work for which I was born and have set up my rest in this world.
I asked long ago,'What must I do to be saved?' The Scripture answered, 'Keep the commandments, believe, hope, love.' I was early warned against laying, as the Papists do, too much stress on outward works, or on a faith without works, which as it does not include, so it will never lead to true hope or charity.
Prayer is where the action is.
I saw that giving even all my life to God (supposing it possible to do this and go no further) would profit me nothing unless I gave my heart, yea, all my heart, to Him.
In using all means, seek God alone. In and through every outward thing, look only to the power of His Spirit, and the merits of His Son. Beware you do not get stuck in the work itself; if you do, it is all lost labor. Nothing short of God can satisfy your soul. Therefore, fix on Him in all, through all, and above all...Remember also to use all means as means-as ordained, not for their own sake.
Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.
Much of what is euphemistically known as the middle class, merely because it dresses up to go to work, is now reduced to proletarian conditions of existence. Many white-collar jobs require no more skill and pay even less than blue-collar jobs, conferring little status or security.
Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.
So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and structure of the language.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Freedom sees in religion the companion of its struggles and its triumphs, the cradle of its infancy, the divine source of its rights. It considers religion as the safeguard of mores; and mores as the guarantee of laws and the pledge of its duration.
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