I’ve been reading from a little book I found on eBay a few weeks ago:  How to Pray:  The Best of John Wesley on Prayer (Uhrichville, OH:  Barbour Publishing, 2007), and it has some wonderful excerpts from Wesley’s sermons on prayer.  I just wish it was cited more fully.

About every 5 pages, the book presents a short quote in a larger font–some of the more famous quotes.  (I wish the editors were identified by name, so that I might cite them here.)  On page 47, for instance, this gem is reprinted:

“Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergyman or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of Hell and set up the kingdom of Heaven upon the earth.”

Actually, I most often see a slightly different version of that quote, but this one…