Francis Asbury quotes
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“My desire is to live more to God today than yesterday, and to be more holy this day than the last.”
-- Francis AsburySource : "Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church".
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“My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.”
-- Francis AsburySource : 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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“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 AsburySource : 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
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“We live by faith in a prayer-hearing, soul-converting , soul-sanctifyin g, soul-restoring, soul-comforting God.”
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“Oh what people of God we ought to be; and grace can make us so!”
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“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.”
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“God is gracious beyond the power of language to describe.”
-- Francis AsburySource : 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
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“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 AsburySource : Francis Asbury (1800). “Journal of Rev. Francis Asbury: Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church”, p.456
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“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 AsburySource : Francis Asbury (1852). “From August 7, 1771, to December 31, 1786”, p.12
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Source : Ace Frehley, Joe Layden, John Ostrosky (2011). “No Regrets”, p.296, Simon and Schuster
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.”
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