Sunday, May 19, 2013

Mature Love and Fairness

I take knowledge, you are a young man; and as such, extremely peremptory. So was I, till I was more than thirty years old. So I may well make allowance for you. I was likewise as much bigoted to my opinions as you can be for your life; that is, I thought them deeply important, and that all contrary opinions were damnable errors. Have patience and you will see farther. In a few years you will find out that neither these are half so necessary to salvation, nor half so destructive as you now imagine.

Letter to Samuel Furly, 1762, from the Rev. John Wesley, AM

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