"'whether it be little or great, hard or easy, joyous or grievous to the flesh'"

"Wesley cannot be used accurately as a resource in support of a vision of unity that requires affirming opposing understandings of practical holiness. A church with two different conceptions of holiness, in Wesley’s view, is already in schism."

     Kevin M. Watson, "'Holiness of heart and life':  unity, holiness, and the mission of Methodism," in Unity of the church and human sexuality:  toward a faithful United Methodist witness (United Methodist General Board of Higher Education and Ministry, 2018), 438.  The headline is from Wesley, "The Character of a Methodist" 12, Works (the Bicentennial edition), vol. 9, p. 39.