Francis Asbury Quotes

• My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

  Francis Asbury

  God, Christian, Religious

  "Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church".

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• We should so work as if we were to be saved by our works; and so rely on Jesus Christ, as if we did no works.

  Francis Asbury

  Religious, Jesus, Work

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.231

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• We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.

  Francis Asbury

  Prayer, Soul, Comforting

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• God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

  Francis Asbury

  Faith, Language And Power, Gracious

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.232

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• Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.

  Francis Asbury

  Heaven, Pits, Torture

  Francis Asbury (1800). “Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church”, p.456

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• Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!

  Francis Asbury

  People, Grace, Ought

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• Whither am I going? To the New World. What to do? To gain honor? No, if I know my own heart. To get money? No: I am going to live to God, and to bring others so to do.

  Francis Asbury

  Heart, Honor, World

  Francis Asbury (1852). “From August 7, 1771, to December 31, 1786”, p.12

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• O what pride, conforming to the world and following its fashions! Warn them, warn them for me, while you have strength and time and be faithful to your duty.

  Francis Asbury

  Fashion, Pride, Faithful

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• My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

  Francis Asbury

  Soul, Employed, My Soul

  Francis Asbury (1821). “The Journal of the Rev. Francis Asbury, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church: From August 7, 1771, to December 7, 1815”, p.266

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