agrogersJohn Wesley is estimated to have earned thirty thousand pounds over his lifetime (about 4 million USD today*). But by the end of his life he had given it all away.
“I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence, but in every other respect my own hands will be my executors.”
“O leave nothing behind you! Send all you have before you into a better world! Lend it, lend it all unto the Lord, and it shall be paid you again!”
“[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds … you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.” When he died in 1791, the only money mentioned in his will was the miscellaneous coins to be found in his pockets and dresser drawers.
* https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency-converter/#currency-result
