William Booth Quotes

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 without regeneration, politics without God, and heaven without hell.

While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight While little children go hungry, as they do now, I'll fight While men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I'll fight While there is a drunkard left, While there is a poor lost girl upon the streets, While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to the very end!

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

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

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 even to give him a University education. These things are all outside a man, and if the inside remains unchanged you have wasted your labor. You must in some way or other graft upon the man's nature a new nature, which has in it the element of the Divine.

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!

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

Go straight for souls, and go for the worst.

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.

We must wake ourselves up! Or somebody else will take our place, and bear our cross, and thereby rob us of our crown.