Francis Asbury famous quotes

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

#Yesterday #Desire #Today

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

#Soul #Employed

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

#Jesus #Christ #Should

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

#Prayer #Soul #Comforting

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

#People #Grace

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

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

#Faith #Language #Gracious

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

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

I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.

Crime is fast destroying the moral fabric of South African cities, and is becoming a major threat to South African democracy as well as the prominent manifestation of a "class war" that is largely a continuation of the "race war" of yesterday.

Once Ptolemy and Plato, yesterday Newton, today Einstein, and tomorrow new faiths, new beliefs, and new dimensions.

We want you. We wanted you yesterday, we want you today and we'll want you tomorrow. There's nothing you could do to change that.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Do you know what it is to be a man violently in love? To live for a woman's smiles and laughter, to hunger for her touch until life itself seems impossible without it, to desire her as you desire to breathe?

Whoever desires this world must seek its knowledge, and whoever desires the next must seek its knowledge.

It's really seeing student involvement … as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.