Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Francis Asbury

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English priest Francis Asbury.

Last updated on April 15, 2025.

Francis Asbury was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States. During his 45 years in the colonies and the newly independent United States, he devoted his life to ministry, traveling on horseback and by carriage thousands of miles to those living on the frontier.

English - Priest | August 20, 1745 - March 31, 1816

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

Francis Asbury

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

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

Francis Asbury

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

Francis Asbury

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

Francis Asbury

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

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

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

Francis Asbury

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

Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Francis Asbury

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