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William Booth

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William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912).

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Notable works: In Darkest England and the Way Out

About William Booth

William Booth was an English Methodist preacher who, along with his wife, Catherine, founded the Salvation Army and became its first General (1878–1912). This Christian movement, founded in 1865, has a quasi-military structure and government and has spread from London to many parts of the world. It is one of the largest distributors of humanitarian aid.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by William Booth

There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not…

Altars

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A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to…

Civilization

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It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder…

Absence

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Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell…

Bible

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Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then…

Faith

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If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with…

Ifs

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There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part,…

Beetles

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While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!

Dark

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God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.

Bursting

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If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.

Ifs

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Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for…

Art

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If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my…

Adoration

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“The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation…

Christianity

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Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of…

Ability

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Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight,…

Consideration

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Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.

Fire

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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.

Cold

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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men…

Children

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There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by…

Abhorrent

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I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.

Funny

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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.

Asks

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Look! Don't be deceived by appearances - men and things are not what they seem. All who are not on the rock…

Deceived

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I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains…

Adoration

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“Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and…

Bible

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“Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.”

Christian

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