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

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
Preacher
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Bursting
Men
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Impossible
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I am for the world's salvation, I will quarrel with no means that promises help.
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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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The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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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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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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While there remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight - I'll fight to the very end!
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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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 sea!
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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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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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Some of my best men are women!
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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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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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The profession of a prostitute is the only career in which the maximum income is paid to the newest apprentice.
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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 power of my will, and all the influence of my life.
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