Titus 2: 11-14
For the grace of God has appeared, saving all 12. and training us to reject godless ways and worldly desires and to live temperately, justly, and devoutly in this age, 13. as we await the blessed hope, the appearance of the glory of the great God and of our savior Jesus Christ, 14. who gave himself for us to deliver us from all lawlessness and to cleanse for himself a people as his own, eager to do what is good. - Titus 2: 11-14
.... So that, if a man only abstains from doing evil in order to avoid punishment, Non pasces in cruce corvos, [Thou shalt not be hanged.], saith the Pagan; there, "thou hast thy reward." But even he will not allow such a harmless man as this to be so much as a good heathen. If, then, any man, from the same motive, viz., to avoid punishment, to avoid the loss of his friends, or his gain, or his reputation, should not only abstain from doing evil, but also do ever so much good; yea, and use all the means of grace; yet we could not with any propriety say, this man is even almost a Christian. If he has no better principle in his heart, he is only a hypocrite altogether.
- Dr. John Wesley
