Top 38 William Booth Quotes
#2. Good cookery is not an extravagance but an economy, and many a tasty dish is made by our Continental friends out of materials which would be discarded indignantly by the poorest tramp in Whitechapel.
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#3. Will you go to His feet and place yourself entirely at His disposal?
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#4. The chief danger of the 20th century will be religion without the Holy Spirit, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.
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#5. Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
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#6. 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 learn how!
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#7. 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 of sense on the part of those who have had no advantages, when we see such plentiful absence of that commodity on the part of those who have had all the advantages?
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#8. If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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#9. I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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#10. 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 benefit of your generation.
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#11. The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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#12. Work as if everything depended upon work and pray as if everything depended upon prayer.
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#13. 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. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
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#14. We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.
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#15. I must go, not only to those who need me, but to those who need me most.
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#16. 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 in harmony with the will and purpose of the Holy Spirit whom you seek.
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#17. You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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#18. I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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#19. 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 right to a single note of the whole seven. Every note, and every strain, and every harmony is divine, and belongs to us.
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#20. 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 squandering, to enable the poor man to bank it up for use hereafter, this surely is one of the most urgent tasks before civilization.
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#21. It is impossible to comfort men's hearts with the love of God when their feet are perishing with cold.
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#22. 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 sea!
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#24. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear Him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help.
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#26. But what is the use of preaching the Gospel to men whose whole attention is concentrated upon a mad, desperate struggle to keep themselves alive?
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#27. I must assert in the most unqualified way that it is primarily and mainly for the sake of saving the soul that I seek the salvation of the body.
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#28. 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 faith again, and then works again
until they can scarcely distinguish which is the one and which is the other.
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#29. 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
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#30. God loves with a great love the man whose heart is bursting with a passion for the impossible.
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#31. Look well to the fire of your souls, for the tendency of fire is to go out.
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#32. The chief danger that confronts the coming century will be religion without the Holy Ghost, Christianity without Christ, forgiveness without repentance, salvation without regeneration, politics without God, heaven without hell.
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#33. The greatness of the man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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#34. 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 that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.
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#35. Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.
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#36. If you want to change the future, then you are going to have to trouble the present.
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#37. There is a day coming when there will be a religion without repentance, a salvation without the Holy Ghost, a Heaven without Hell.
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#38. 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 you do, don't be surprised if they get engaged to the first empty, useless fool they come across.
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