William Booth Quotes

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• There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools as…
• Before we go to our knees to receive the Baptism of Fire, let me beg of you to see to it that your souls are…
• Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
• There appears to be a deeply embedded uneasiness in our culture about throwing away junk that can be reused. Perhaps, in part, it is guilt…
• I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
• I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
• 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 souls
• To get a man soundly saved it is not enough to put on him a pair of new breeches, to give him regular work, or…
• Faith and works should travel side by side, step answering to step, like the legs of men walking. First faith, and then works; and then…
• If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
• You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
• If I thought I could win one more soul to the Lord by walking on my head and playing the tambourine with my toes, I'd…
• The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace fire knows…
• While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!
• 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…
• Some of my best men are women!
• Secular music, do you say, belongs to the devil? Does it? Well, if it did I would plunder him for it, for he has no…
• It is against stupidity in every shape and form that we have to wage our eternal battle. But how can we wonder at the want…
• A man's labor is not only his capital but his life. When it passes it returns never more. To utilize it, to prevent its wasteful…
• The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.

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