Francis Asbury Quotes

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.

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.