To abandon all, to strip ...

To abandon all, to strip one's self of all, in order to seek and follow Jesus Christ naked to Bethlehem where He was born, naked to the hall where He was scourged, and naked to Calvary where He died on the cross, is so great a mystery that neither the thing nor the knowledge of it, is given to any but through faith in the Son of God.
 John Wesley

Quotes from the same author

My mother was the source from which I derived the guiding principles of my life.
 John Wesley
I learned more about Christianity from my mother than from all the theologians in England.
 John Wesley
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
 John Wesley
I have so much to do that I spend several hours in prayer before I am able to do it.
 John Wesley
If we suffer persecution and affliction in a right manner, we attain a larger measure of conformity to Christ, by a due improvement of one of these occasions, than we could have done merely by imitating his mercy, in abundance of good works.
 John Wesley