He combines the manners of a Marquis with the morals of a Methodist.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.
The Methodists love your big sinners, as proper subjects to work upon.
My dad was a Methodist minister.
The minister of the Gospel is really the yardstick by which the nation measures its morals.
Mere heathen morality, and not Jesus Christ, is preached in most of our churches.
It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent.
I was reared in the conservative atmosphere of a Methodist parsonage.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
The only principles of public conduct that are worthy of a gentleman or a man are to sacrifice estate, ease, health, and applause, and even life, to the sacred calls of his country.
He was as great as a man can be without morality.