Quote (John Wesley)

Many of your bretheren, beloved of God have not food to eat; they have not raiment to put on; they have not a place where to lay their heads.  And why are they thus distressed?  Because you impiously, unjustly, and cruelly detain from them what your Master and theirs lodges in your hands, on purpose to supply their wants!  See that poor member of Christ pinched with hunger, shivering with cold, half naked!  Meantime you have plenty of this world's goods, of meat, drink, and apparel.  In the name of God, what are you doing?

- John Wesley

John Wesley, "Causes of the Inefficacy of Christianity," in The Works of John Wesley: Sermons, Volume 2, ed. John Emory (New York: Eaton & Mains, 1904), 438.