William Booth Quotes

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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 are in the…
• We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
• You must pray with all your might. That does not mean saying your prayers, or sitting gazing about in church or chapel with eyes wide…
• I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
• Why should the devil have all the best tunes?
• ... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
• I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
• The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
• No sort of defense is needed for preaching outdoors, but it would take a very strong argument to prove that a man who has never…
• Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.
• Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
• Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes.…
• There are men so incorrigibly lazy that no inducement that you can offer will tempt them to work; so eaten up by vice that virtue…
• I consider that the chief dangers which confront the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation…
• Don't instill, or allow anybody else to instill into the hearts of your girls the idea that marriage is the chief end of life. If…
• If there is anything of power in The Salvation Army today, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the…
• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice. It is the one calling…
• Your days at the most cannot be very long, so use them to the best of your ability for the glory of God and the…
• What is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
• It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.

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