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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.

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".

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

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

Francis Asbury
Prayer, Soul, Comforting

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

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

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

Francis Asbury
People, Grace, Ought

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

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

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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