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John Wesley on Growing in Experience - Wesleyan (Psalm 34:8)

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"Taste and see—and keep tasting! Initial experience deepens into rich knowledge. The more we taste, the more we want; the more we see, the more there is to see. Sanctification is tasting ever more deeply the goodness we first savored at conversion." — John Wesley. Wesleyan: deepening taste.

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Psalm 34:8

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