JANUARY 8
You look inward too much, and upward too little.
Letter, 16th February, 1771
Hear ye this, all ye that are called Methodists. You constantly speak of salvation by faith, and you are right in so doing. … But consider, meantime, that let us have ever so much faith, and be our faith ever so strong, it will never save us from hell, unless it now save us from all unholy tempers; from pride, passion, impatience; from all arrogance of spirit, all haughtiness and overbearing; from wrath, anger, bitterness; from discontent, murmuring, fretfulness, peevishness. We are of all men most inexcusable, if having been so frequently guarded against that strong delusion, we still, while we indulge any of these tempers, bless ourselves and dream we are in the way to heaven.
Charity
