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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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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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