Francis Asbury Quotes

United Kingdom, Bishop
August 20, 1745 – March, 31, 1816.

Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. As a young man in October 1771, the Englishman traveled to America and, during his 45 years there, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier.

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

Francis Asbury
- People
- Grace
- Ought
God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Francis Asbury
- God
- Power
- Language

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

Francis Asbury
- Soul
- Prayer
- Hearing
My desire is to live more to God to-day than yesterday, and to be more holy this hour than the last.

Francis Asbury
- Desire
- Yesterday
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
- World
- Fashion
- Pride
My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Francis Asbury
- Soul
- Employed
- Tempter
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
- World
- Money
- Heart

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
- Work
- Jesus Christ