Catherine Booth

Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.

— Catherine Booth

We are made for larger ends than Earth can encompass. Oh, let us be true to our exalted destiny.

— Catherine Booth

The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.

— Catherine Booth

I don't believe in any religion apart from doing the will of God.

— Catherine Booth

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

— Catherine Booth

If you are under the dominion of sin, you are yet an utter stranger to the salvation of God.

— Catherine Booth

What the law tried to do by a restraining power from without, the gospel does by an inspiring power from within.

— Catherine Booth

You are not here in the world for yourself. You have been sent here for others. The world is waiting for you!

— Catherine Booth

“It seemed clear to me from the teaching of the Bible that Christ’s people should be separate from the world in everything…

— Catherine Booth

Cast off all bonds of prejudice and custom, and let the love of Christ, which is in you, have free course to…

— Catherine Booth

The popular gospel of this day, is the laughing-stock of Hell; it dare neither damn the sinner, nor sanctify the saint.

— Catherine Booth

God forbid that I should ever teach any adaptation of the Gospel. But I contend that we may serve it up in…

— Catherine Booth

Here is the principle - adapt your measures to the necessity of the people to whom you minister. You are to take…

— Catherine Booth

The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received into the mind like I should receive…

— Catherine Booth

And we find from Church history that the primitive Christians thus understood it; for that women did actually speak and preach amongst…

— Catherine Booth

The Gospel that represents Jesus Christ, not as a system of truth to be received, into the mind, as I should receive…

— Catherine Booth

A barracks is meant to be a place where real soldiers were to be fed and equipped for war, not a place…

— Catherine Booth

Many do not recognize the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and that it is…

— Catherine Booth

Whatever the particular call is, the particular sacrifice God asks you to make, the particular cross He wishes you to embrace, whatever…

— Catherine Booth

It is a great delusion to suppose that flesh-meat of any kind is essential to health. Considerably more than three parts of…

— Catherine Booth

There is no improving the future without disturbing the present.

— Catherine Booth

If we are to better the future we must disturb the present.

— Catherine Booth

If Christ cannot supersede the Law, then I am lost, and lost forever.

— Catherine Booth

What the Lord wants is that you shall go about the business to which He sets you, not asking for an easy…

— Catherine Booth