...Wesley's own practice approximated to this standard. Of his three directions for the use of money, " Gain all you can," " Save all you can," " Give all you can," the third was the most important, supplying the motive and justification for the first two. Wesley...

...on the use of money, we can see how far the principles of social justice had been tampered with. " Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can," is a counsel of perfection in which the first two members seem unduly weighted against the third. "The...

...on the use of money, we can see how far the principles of social justice had been tampered with. " Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can," is a counsel of perfection in which the first two members seem unduly weighted against the third. "The...

...about riches, before the wealth-intoxication of the Industrial Revolution. His reiterated maxim was : " Gain all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can" — the emphasis ever upon the last phrase, which he illustrated by his own example. Wesley even issued...

...accomplishing a service to the commonwealth. John Wesley laid down for his followers the three maxims : " Gain all you can ; save all you can ; give all you can." They have seemed . sufficient to many good Christians in the past; but the first maxim hardly satisfies...

...Wesley's own practice approximated to this standard. Of his three directions for the use of money, "Gain all you can," "Save all you can," "Give all you can," the third was the most important, supplying the motive and justification for the first two. Wesley...

...reminiscent of Wesley's frequently repeated Sermon on the Use of Money with its three "plain rules": "Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can." Here too money is regarded as a fit medium for the enhancement of personal intercourse. But it is precisely...

...edition, Harper, 1847], Vol. II, p. 308). Wesley thought he saw a solution of the dilemma in the formula: "Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can." That this formula is hardly adequate, and that it has difficulties of its own, need no more than be...

...guilt related to giving based on a set percentage of income. John Wesley understood this when he said, "Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can." Another principle that has helped us comes from 2 Corinthians 8, where we are told how the Macedonians...

...as an 116 excellent gift of God. In the sermon in which he sums up his economic theory Wesley says 'Gain all you can, Save all you can, Give all you can.' This advice, and above all the opening phrase, would have horrified Bunyan, who would have emphasised...