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

William Booth

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William Booth
Age: 83 †
Born: 1829
Born: April 10
Died: 1912
Died: August 20
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While women weep, as they do now, I'll fight.
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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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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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You cannot warm the hearts of people with God's love if they have an empty stomach and cold feet.
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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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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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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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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 greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.
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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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I am not waiting for a move of God, I am a move of God!
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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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... you cannot make a man clean [simply] by washing his shirt.
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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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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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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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I will tell you the secret. God has had all there was of me.
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If Moses had operated through committees the Israelites never would have got across the Red Sea.
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