But suppose you [ask], do good designs and good intentions make a Christian? By no means, unless they are brought to good effect. “Hell is paved,” says one, “with good intentions.” The great question of all, then, still remains: Is the love of God poured out in your heart? Can you cry out, “My God and my All?” Do you desire nothing else but him? Are you happy in God? Is he your glory, your delight, your crown of rejoicing? And is this commandment written in your heart, “That he who loves God loves his brother also?” Do you then love your neighbor as yourself? Do you love every man, even your enemies, even the enemies of God, as your own soul? As Christ loved you? Do you believe that Christ loved you, and gave himself for you? Do you have faith in his blood? Do you believe the Lamb of God has taken away your sins, and cast them as a stone into the depth of the sea? That he has blotted out the handwriting [in God’s book of life] that was against you, taking it out of the way, nailing it to his cross? Do you have redemption through his blood, even the remission of your sins? And does his Spirit say to your spirit, that  you are a child of God?

—John Wesley, Sermon 2, The Almost Christian, 5.24